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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Alexander Mathews Davis was born in Wythe County, Va. 17 January 1833. He graduated from Emory and Henry College, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He practiced law in Wytheville and in Grayson County, Va. He served in the 45th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army, rising to rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of Virginia State Senate and served the House of Representatives 1873-1874 in a contested seat. He died in Grayson County, 25 September 1889.","Box and folder list inventory completed by Zach Woodward, SCRC staff, in February 2011.","Correspondence and accounts of Alexander Mathews Davis, lawyer of Grayson County, Va. Includes several Civil War letters.","Item 1: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Mary F. Wiley, at Jonesville, N.C., 9 July 1856\nItem 2: Bastin Fulton to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 30 Oct. 1858\nItem 3: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Alexander M. Davis., 4 Aug. 1859\nItem 4: D.F. Boyd, at Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, La., to [?], 18 September 1859\nItem 5: James O'Briens, at McGabeysville, [Rockingham County, Va.], to Alexander M. Davis, 16 March 1860\nItem 6: Enoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], 14 February 1861\nEnoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County]. 14 February 1861. Mutilated.\nItem 7: L.H. Bryan [?] to Capt. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 April 1862\nItem 8: A[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County], 1862\nA[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County]. 1862. Mutilated.\nItem 9: John M. Davis, at Winston, N.C., to his brother, [?], 21 December 1863\nItem 10: William M. Dickinson, in Camp near Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Maj. A[lexander] M. Davis, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, at Camp near Saltville, [Smyth County], Va., 8 April 1864\nItem 11: Alexander M. Davis to C. Fredeking, 7 July 1866\nItem 12: Cans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean, 18 June 1867\nCans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean. 18 June 1867. Copy.\nItem 13: J.M. Bradstreet \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 24 June 1867\nItem 14: Penniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 8 July 1867\nPenniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis. 8 July 1867.\nItem 15: William Edwards to Jerry Lovelace, 24 June 1868\nWilliam Edwards to Jerry Lovelace. 24 June 1868. Note: This letter includes a receipt for money paid William Edwards.\nItem 16: J.B. Barrett \u0026 Co., at Wytheville, Va., to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson county, Va.], 1 July 1868\nItem 17: Merchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 15 September 1868\nMerchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va. 15 September 1868. Printed circular letter. Enclosures: Printed subscription blank and envelope.\nItem 18: Robert Crockett, Jr., at Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., to Col. John Dickenson, 13 April 1869\nItem 19: P.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis], 17 July 1869\nP.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis]. 17 July 1869. Printed circular letter.\nItem 20: Alexander P. Matthews, at Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Alexander M. Davis, 19 July 1869\nItem 21: A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller, October 1869\nA[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller. October 1869. Copy\nItem 22: L.I. Leberman, at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 November 1869\nItem 23: Kent Paine \u0026 Co., at Richmond, to John Dickinson, at Nuckollsville, Grayson County, Va., 7 December 1869\nItem 24: John Dickenson, at New River, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 3 February 1870\nItem 25: A.M. Young, at Spring Valley, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1870\nItem 26: W. de V. Corning [?], Postmaster, at Wytheville, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 4 [?] June 1870\nItem 27: Shipley, Roane \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 11 June 1870\nItem 28: J.C. Miller, at Louisville, Ky., to [?], 13 July 1870\nItem 29: Gilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 18 July 1870\nGilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis. 18 July 1870. Enclosure: Receipt for special business tax.\nItem 30: C.G. Elliott, at Hilsville, [Carrol County], Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 December 1870\nItem 31: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 9 December 1870\nItem 32: G.E.W. Herring \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 27 December 1870\nItem 33: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., 12 January 1871\nItem 34: William H. H. Cowl, at Wilkesboro, N.C., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 24 May 1871\nItem 35: Mastin Hail to [?], 16 March 1872\nItem 36: William A. Burwell, at Patrick Court House, Va., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, 16 August 1872\nItem 37: Armstrong, Cator \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 29 December 1872\nItem 38: George W. Cornett, at Elk Creek, [Grayson County], Va., to A. F. Gregory, at Johnson City, Tenn., 5 February 1873\nItem 39: Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at Washington, D.C., to A[lexander] M. davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 8 February 1873\nItem 40: John Goode, Jr., at Norfolk, Va., to [?], 16 April 1873\nItem 41: C.W. Jones, at Marion, [Smyth County], to [?] Dickerson, 26 April 1873\nItem 42: C.A. Wetherow, at Nuckollsville, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 October 1873\nItem 43: Miss S. J. Cooke, at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 9 January 1874\nItem 44: T.M. 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Davis, 30 Oct. 1858\nItem 3: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Alexander M. Davis., 4 Aug. 1859\nItem 4: D.F. Boyd, at Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, La., to [?], 18 September 1859\nItem 5: James O'Briens, at McGabeysville, [Rockingham County, Va.], to Alexander M. Davis, 16 March 1860\nItem 6: Enoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], 14 February 1861\nEnoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County]. 14 February 1861. Mutilated.\nItem 7: L.H. Bryan [?] to Capt. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 April 1862\nItem 8: A[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County], 1862\nA[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County]. 1862. Mutilated.\nItem 9: John M. Davis, at Winston, N.C., to his brother, [?], 21 December 1863\nItem 10: William M. Dickinson, in Camp near Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Maj. A[lexander] M. Davis, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, at Camp near Saltville, [Smyth County], Va., 8 April 1864\nItem 11: Alexander M. Davis to C. Fredeking, 7 July 1866\nItem 12: Cans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean, 18 June 1867\nCans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean. 18 June 1867. Copy.\nItem 13: J.M. Bradstreet \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 24 June 1867\nItem 14: Penniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 8 July 1867\nPenniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis. 8 July 1867.\nItem 15: William Edwards to Jerry Lovelace, 24 June 1868\nWilliam Edwards to Jerry Lovelace. 24 June 1868. Note: This letter includes a receipt for money paid William Edwards.\nItem 16: J.B. Barrett \u0026 Co., at Wytheville, Va., to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson county, Va.], 1 July 1868\nItem 17: Merchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 15 September 1868\nMerchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va. 15 September 1868. Printed circular letter. Enclosures: Printed subscription blank and envelope.\nItem 18: Robert Crockett, Jr., at Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., to Col. John Dickenson, 13 April 1869\nItem 19: P.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis], 17 July 1869\nP.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis]. 17 July 1869. Printed circular letter.\nItem 20: Alexander P. Matthews, at Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Alexander M. Davis, 19 July 1869\nItem 21: A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller, October 1869\nA[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller. October 1869. Copy\nItem 22: L.I. Leberman, at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 November 1869\nItem 23: Kent Paine \u0026 Co., at Richmond, to John Dickinson, at Nuckollsville, Grayson County, Va., 7 December 1869\nItem 24: John Dickenson, at New River, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 3 February 1870\nItem 25: A.M. Young, at Spring Valley, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1870\nItem 26: W. de V. Corning [?], Postmaster, at Wytheville, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 4 [?] June 1870\nItem 27: Shipley, Roane \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 11 June 1870\nItem 28: J.C. Miller, at Louisville, Ky., to [?], 13 July 1870\nItem 29: Gilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 18 July 1870\nGilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis. 18 July 1870. Enclosure: Receipt for special business tax.\nItem 30: C.G. Elliott, at Hilsville, [Carrol County], Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 December 1870\nItem 31: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 9 December 1870\nItem 32: G.E.W. Herring \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 27 December 1870\nItem 33: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., 12 January 1871\nItem 34: William H. H. Cowl, at Wilkesboro, N.C., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 24 May 1871\nItem 35: Mastin Hail to [?], 16 March 1872\nItem 36: William A. Burwell, at Patrick Court House, Va., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, 16 August 1872\nItem 37: Armstrong, Cator \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 29 December 1872\nItem 38: George W. Cornett, at Elk Creek, [Grayson County], Va., to A. F. Gregory, at Johnson City, Tenn., 5 February 1873\nItem 39: Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at Washington, D.C., to A[lexander] M. davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 8 February 1873\nItem 40: John Goode, Jr., at Norfolk, Va., to [?], 16 April 1873\nItem 41: C.W. Jones, at Marion, [Smyth County], to [?] Dickerson, 26 April 1873\nItem 42: C.A. Wetherow, at Nuckollsville, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 October 1873\nItem 43: Miss S. J. Cooke, at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 9 January 1874\nItem 44: T.M. Oglesby, at Muckollsville, Va., to Davis and Dickenson, 28 January 1874\nItem 45: S.M. Fulton, at Summerfield, Grayson County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 10 February 1874\nItem 46: W.J.T. Slum, at Glenn Springs, S.C., to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 17 July 1874\nItem 47: A. Oppenheimer, at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 17 February 1875\nItem 48: James H. Baldwin, at Wytheville, Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 21 December 1875\nItem 49: Joseph W. Davis, at Elmwood, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1876\nItem 50: Mrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis, 3 July 1876\nMrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis. 3 July 1876. Note: This letter includes an account.\nItem 51: F.J. Lundy, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 13 August 1877\nItem 52: A.L. Ellet \u0026 Co., at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 17 September 1877","Item 1: Day book of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1873-1874\nDay book of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1873-1874. 236 pages. 14 1/2 x 6 inches.\nItem 2: Accounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1851-1890\nAccounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. 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Davis, at Winston, N.C., to his brother, [?], 21 December 1863\nItem 10: William M. Dickinson, in Camp near Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Maj. A[lexander] M. Davis, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, at Camp near Saltville, [Smyth County], Va., 8 April 1864\nItem 11: Alexander M. Davis to C. Fredeking, 7 July 1866\nItem 12: Cans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean, 18 June 1867\nCans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean. 18 June 1867. Copy.\nItem 13: J.M. Bradstreet \u0026amp; Son, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 24 June 1867\nItem 14: Penniman \u0026amp; Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 8 July 1867\nPenniman \u0026amp; Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis. 8 July 1867.\nItem 15: William Edwards to Jerry Lovelace, 24 June 1868\nWilliam Edwards to Jerry Lovelace. 24 June 1868. Note: This letter includes a receipt for money paid William Edwards.\nItem 16: J.B. Barrett \u0026amp; Co., at Wytheville, Va., to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson county, Va.], 1 July 1868\nItem 17: Merchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 15 September 1868\nMerchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va. 15 September 1868. Printed circular letter. Enclosures: Printed subscription blank and envelope.\nItem 18: Robert Crockett, Jr., at Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., to Col. John Dickenson, 13 April 1869\nItem 19: P.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis], 17 July 1869\nP.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis]. 17 July 1869. Printed circular letter.\nItem 20: Alexander P. Matthews, at Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Alexander M. Davis, 19 July 1869\nItem 21: A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller, October 1869\nA[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller. October 1869. Copy\nItem 22: L.I. Leberman, at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 November 1869\nItem 23: Kent Paine \u0026amp; Co., at Richmond, to John Dickinson, at Nuckollsville, Grayson County, Va., 7 December 1869\nItem 24: John Dickenson, at New River, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 3 February 1870\nItem 25: A.M. Young, at Spring Valley, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1870\nItem 26: W. de V. Corning [?], Postmaster, at Wytheville, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 4 [?] June 1870\nItem 27: Shipley, Roane \u0026amp; Co., at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 11 June 1870\nItem 28: J.C. Miller, at Louisville, Ky., to [?], 13 July 1870\nItem 29: Gilmore \u0026amp; Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 18 July 1870\nGilmore \u0026amp; Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis. 18 July 1870. Enclosure: Receipt for special business tax.\nItem 30: C.G. Elliott, at Hilsville, [Carrol County], Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 December 1870\nItem 31: John McKillop \u0026amp; Co., at Philadelphia, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 9 December 1870\nItem 32: G.E.W. Herring \u0026amp; Son, at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 27 December 1870\nItem 33: John McKillop \u0026amp; Co., at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., 12 January 1871\nItem 34: William H. H. Cowl, at Wilkesboro, N.C., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 24 May 1871\nItem 35: Mastin Hail to [?], 16 March 1872\nItem 36: William A. Burwell, at Patrick Court House, Va., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, 16 August 1872\nItem 37: Armstrong, Cator \u0026amp; Co., at Baltimore, to Davis \u0026amp; Dickenson, 29 December 1872\nItem 38: George W. Cornett, at Elk Creek, [Grayson County], Va., to A. F. Gregory, at Johnson City, Tenn., 5 February 1873\nItem 39: Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at Washington, D.C., to A[lexander] M. davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 8 February 1873\nItem 40: John Goode, Jr., at Norfolk, Va., to [?], 16 April 1873\nItem 41: C.W. Jones, at Marion, [Smyth County], to [?] Dickerson, 26 April 1873\nItem 42: C.A. Wetherow, at Nuckollsville, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 October 1873\nItem 43: Miss S. J. Cooke, at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 9 January 1874\nItem 44: T.M. Oglesby, at Muckollsville, Va., to Davis and Dickenson, 28 January 1874\nItem 45: S.M. Fulton, at Summerfield, Grayson County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 10 February 1874\nItem 46: W.J.T. Slum, at Glenn Springs, S.C., to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 17 July 1874\nItem 47: A. Oppenheimer, at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026amp; Dickenson, 17 February 1875\nItem 48: James H. Baldwin, at Wytheville, Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 21 December 1875\nItem 49: Joseph W. Davis, at Elmwood, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1876\nItem 50: Mrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis, 3 July 1876\nMrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis. 3 July 1876. Note: This letter includes an account.\nItem 51: F.J. Lundy, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 13 August 1877\nItem 52: A.L. Ellet \u0026amp; Co., at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026amp; Dickenson, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 17 September 1877\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem 1: Day book of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1873-1874\nDay book of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1873-1874. 236 pages. 14 1/2 x 6 inches.\nItem 2: Accounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1851-1890\nAccounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1851-1890. 57 pieces.\nItem 3: Accounts of the estates of Mrs. Mary Dickenson and of Martin Dickenson, 1873\nAccounts of the estates of Mrs. Mary Dickenson and of Martin Dickenson. 1873. 2 pieces.\nItem 4: Other accounts, invoices, receipts and tax bills, 1854-1881\nOther accounts, invoices, receipts and tax bills. 1854-1881. 15 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e"],"collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_20","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_20","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_20","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_20","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_20.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Davis, Alexander M. Papers","title_ssm":["Alexander M. Davis Papers"],"title_tesim":["Alexander M. Davis Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1850-1892"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1850-1892"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1850/1892"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Alexander M. Davis Papers, 1850/1892"],"text":["Alexander M. 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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Alexander Mathews Davis was born in Wythe County, Va. 17 January 1833. He graduated from Emory and Henry College, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He practiced law in Wytheville and in Grayson County, Va. He served in the 45th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army, rising to rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of Virginia State Senate and served the House of Representatives 1873-1874 in a contested seat. He died in Grayson County, 25 September 1889.","Box and folder list inventory completed by Zach Woodward, SCRC staff, in February 2011.","Correspondence and accounts of Alexander Mathews Davis, lawyer of Grayson County, Va. Includes several Civil War letters.","Item 1: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Mary F. Wiley, at Jonesville, N.C., 9 July 1856\nItem 2: Bastin Fulton to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 30 Oct. 1858\nItem 3: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Alexander M. Davis., 4 Aug. 1859\nItem 4: D.F. Boyd, at Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, La., to [?], 18 September 1859\nItem 5: James O'Briens, at McGabeysville, [Rockingham County, Va.], to Alexander M. Davis, 16 March 1860\nItem 6: Enoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], 14 February 1861\nEnoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County]. 14 February 1861. Mutilated.\nItem 7: L.H. Bryan [?] to Capt. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 April 1862\nItem 8: A[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County], 1862\nA[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County]. 1862. Mutilated.\nItem 9: John M. Davis, at Winston, N.C., to his brother, [?], 21 December 1863\nItem 10: William M. Dickinson, in Camp near Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Maj. A[lexander] M. Davis, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, at Camp near Saltville, [Smyth County], Va., 8 April 1864\nItem 11: Alexander M. Davis to C. Fredeking, 7 July 1866\nItem 12: Cans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean, 18 June 1867\nCans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean. 18 June 1867. Copy.\nItem 13: J.M. Bradstreet \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 24 June 1867\nItem 14: Penniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 8 July 1867\nPenniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis. 8 July 1867.\nItem 15: William Edwards to Jerry Lovelace, 24 June 1868\nWilliam Edwards to Jerry Lovelace. 24 June 1868. Note: This letter includes a receipt for money paid William Edwards.\nItem 16: J.B. Barrett \u0026 Co., at Wytheville, Va., to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson county, Va.], 1 July 1868\nItem 17: Merchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 15 September 1868\nMerchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va. 15 September 1868. Printed circular letter. Enclosures: Printed subscription blank and envelope.\nItem 18: Robert Crockett, Jr., at Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., to Col. John Dickenson, 13 April 1869\nItem 19: P.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis], 17 July 1869\nP.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis]. 17 July 1869. Printed circular letter.\nItem 20: Alexander P. Matthews, at Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Alexander M. Davis, 19 July 1869\nItem 21: A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller, October 1869\nA[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller. October 1869. Copy\nItem 22: L.I. Leberman, at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 November 1869\nItem 23: Kent Paine \u0026 Co., at Richmond, to John Dickinson, at Nuckollsville, Grayson County, Va., 7 December 1869\nItem 24: John Dickenson, at New River, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 3 February 1870\nItem 25: A.M. Young, at Spring Valley, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1870\nItem 26: W. de V. Corning [?], Postmaster, at Wytheville, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 4 [?] June 1870\nItem 27: Shipley, Roane \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 11 June 1870\nItem 28: J.C. Miller, at Louisville, Ky., to [?], 13 July 1870\nItem 29: Gilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 18 July 1870\nGilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis. 18 July 1870. Enclosure: Receipt for special business tax.\nItem 30: C.G. Elliott, at Hilsville, [Carrol County], Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 December 1870\nItem 31: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 9 December 1870\nItem 32: G.E.W. Herring \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 27 December 1870\nItem 33: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., 12 January 1871\nItem 34: William H. H. Cowl, at Wilkesboro, N.C., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 24 May 1871\nItem 35: Mastin Hail to [?], 16 March 1872\nItem 36: William A. Burwell, at Patrick Court House, Va., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, 16 August 1872\nItem 37: Armstrong, Cator \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 29 December 1872\nItem 38: George W. Cornett, at Elk Creek, [Grayson County], Va., to A. F. Gregory, at Johnson City, Tenn., 5 February 1873\nItem 39: Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at Washington, D.C., to A[lexander] M. davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 8 February 1873\nItem 40: John Goode, Jr., at Norfolk, Va., to [?], 16 April 1873\nItem 41: C.W. Jones, at Marion, [Smyth County], to [?] Dickerson, 26 April 1873\nItem 42: C.A. Wetherow, at Nuckollsville, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 October 1873\nItem 43: Miss S. J. Cooke, at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 9 January 1874\nItem 44: T.M. Oglesby, at Muckollsville, Va., to Davis and Dickenson, 28 January 1874\nItem 45: S.M. Fulton, at Summerfield, Grayson County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 10 February 1874\nItem 46: W.J.T. Slum, at Glenn Springs, S.C., to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 17 July 1874\nItem 47: A. Oppenheimer, at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 17 February 1875\nItem 48: James H. Baldwin, at Wytheville, Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 21 December 1875\nItem 49: Joseph W. Davis, at Elmwood, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1876\nItem 50: Mrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis, 3 July 1876\nMrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis. 3 July 1876. Note: This letter includes an account.\nItem 51: F.J. Lundy, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 13 August 1877\nItem 52: A.L. Ellet \u0026 Co., at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 17 September 1877","Item 1: Day book of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1873-1874\nDay book of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1873-1874. 236 pages. 14 1/2 x 6 inches.\nItem 2: Accounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1851-1890\nAccounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. 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Davis, 30 Oct. 1858\nItem 3: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Alexander M. Davis., 4 Aug. 1859\nItem 4: D.F. Boyd, at Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, La., to [?], 18 September 1859\nItem 5: James O'Briens, at McGabeysville, [Rockingham County, Va.], to Alexander M. Davis, 16 March 1860\nItem 6: Enoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], 14 February 1861\nEnoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County]. 14 February 1861. Mutilated.\nItem 7: L.H. Bryan [?] to Capt. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 April 1862\nItem 8: A[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County], 1862\nA[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County]. 1862. Mutilated.\nItem 9: John M. Davis, at Winston, N.C., to his brother, [?], 21 December 1863\nItem 10: William M. Dickinson, in Camp near Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Maj. A[lexander] M. Davis, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, at Camp near Saltville, [Smyth County], Va., 8 April 1864\nItem 11: Alexander M. Davis to C. Fredeking, 7 July 1866\nItem 12: Cans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean, 18 June 1867\nCans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean. 18 June 1867. Copy.\nItem 13: J.M. Bradstreet \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 24 June 1867\nItem 14: Penniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 8 July 1867\nPenniman \u0026 Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis. 8 July 1867.\nItem 15: William Edwards to Jerry Lovelace, 24 June 1868\nWilliam Edwards to Jerry Lovelace. 24 June 1868. Note: This letter includes a receipt for money paid William Edwards.\nItem 16: J.B. Barrett \u0026 Co., at Wytheville, Va., to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson county, Va.], 1 July 1868\nItem 17: Merchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 15 September 1868\nMerchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va. 15 September 1868. Printed circular letter. Enclosures: Printed subscription blank and envelope.\nItem 18: Robert Crockett, Jr., at Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., to Col. John Dickenson, 13 April 1869\nItem 19: P.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis], 17 July 1869\nP.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis]. 17 July 1869. Printed circular letter.\nItem 20: Alexander P. Matthews, at Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Alexander M. Davis, 19 July 1869\nItem 21: A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller, October 1869\nA[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller. October 1869. Copy\nItem 22: L.I. Leberman, at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 November 1869\nItem 23: Kent Paine \u0026 Co., at Richmond, to John Dickinson, at Nuckollsville, Grayson County, Va., 7 December 1869\nItem 24: John Dickenson, at New River, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 3 February 1870\nItem 25: A.M. Young, at Spring Valley, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1870\nItem 26: W. de V. Corning [?], Postmaster, at Wytheville, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 4 [?] June 1870\nItem 27: Shipley, Roane \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 11 June 1870\nItem 28: J.C. Miller, at Louisville, Ky., to [?], 13 July 1870\nItem 29: Gilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 18 July 1870\nGilmore \u0026 Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis. 18 July 1870. Enclosure: Receipt for special business tax.\nItem 30: C.G. Elliott, at Hilsville, [Carrol County], Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 December 1870\nItem 31: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 9 December 1870\nItem 32: G.E.W. Herring \u0026 Son, at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 27 December 1870\nItem 33: John McKillop \u0026 Co., at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., 12 January 1871\nItem 34: William H. H. Cowl, at Wilkesboro, N.C., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 24 May 1871\nItem 35: Mastin Hail to [?], 16 March 1872\nItem 36: William A. Burwell, at Patrick Court House, Va., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, 16 August 1872\nItem 37: Armstrong, Cator \u0026 Co., at Baltimore, to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 29 December 1872\nItem 38: George W. Cornett, at Elk Creek, [Grayson County], Va., to A. F. Gregory, at Johnson City, Tenn., 5 February 1873\nItem 39: Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at Washington, D.C., to A[lexander] M. davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 8 February 1873\nItem 40: John Goode, Jr., at Norfolk, Va., to [?], 16 April 1873\nItem 41: C.W. Jones, at Marion, [Smyth County], to [?] Dickerson, 26 April 1873\nItem 42: C.A. Wetherow, at Nuckollsville, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 October 1873\nItem 43: Miss S. J. Cooke, at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 9 January 1874\nItem 44: T.M. Oglesby, at Muckollsville, Va., to Davis and Dickenson, 28 January 1874\nItem 45: S.M. Fulton, at Summerfield, Grayson County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 10 February 1874\nItem 46: W.J.T. Slum, at Glenn Springs, S.C., to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 17 July 1874\nItem 47: A. Oppenheimer, at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, 17 February 1875\nItem 48: James H. Baldwin, at Wytheville, Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 21 December 1875\nItem 49: Joseph W. Davis, at Elmwood, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1876\nItem 50: Mrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis, 3 July 1876\nMrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis. 3 July 1876. Note: This letter includes an account.\nItem 51: F.J. Lundy, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 13 August 1877\nItem 52: A.L. Ellet \u0026 Co., at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026 Dickenson, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 17 September 1877","Item 1: Day book of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1873-1874\nDay book of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1873-1874. 236 pages. 14 1/2 x 6 inches.\nItem 2: Accounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1851-1890\nAccounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1851-1890. 57 pieces.\nItem 3: Accounts of the estates of Mrs. Mary Dickenson and of Martin Dickenson, 1873\nAccounts of the estates of Mrs. Mary Dickenson and of Martin Dickenson. 1873. 2 pieces.\nItem 4: Other accounts, invoices, receipts and tax bills, 1854-1881\nOther accounts, invoices, receipts and tax bills. 1854-1881. 15 pieces."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"persname_ssim":["Davis, Alexander Mathews, 1833-1889"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Davis, Alexander Mathews, 1833-1889"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:42:20.276Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and accounts of Alexander Mathews Davis, lawyer of Grayson County, Va. Includes several Civil War letters.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eItem 1: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Mary F. Wiley, at Jonesville, N.C., 9 July 1856\nItem 2: Bastin Fulton to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 30 Oct. 1858\nItem 3: James A. Davis, at Emory, Washington County, Va., to Alexander M. Davis., 4 Aug. 1859\nItem 4: D.F. Boyd, at Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, La., to [?], 18 September 1859\nItem 5: James O'Briens, at McGabeysville, [Rockingham County, Va.], to Alexander M. Davis, 16 March 1860\nItem 6: Enoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], 14 February 1861\nEnoch Ware to Alexander [M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County]. 14 February 1861. Mutilated.\nItem 7: L.H. Bryan [?] to Capt. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 April 1862\nItem 8: A[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County], 1862\nA[lexander] M. Davis to William R. Dickey, at Independence, Grayson [County]. 1862. Mutilated.\nItem 9: John M. Davis, at Winston, N.C., to his brother, [?], 21 December 1863\nItem 10: William M. Dickinson, in Camp near Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Maj. A[lexander] M. Davis, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, at Camp near Saltville, [Smyth County], Va., 8 April 1864\nItem 11: Alexander M. Davis to C. Fredeking, 7 July 1866\nItem 12: Cans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean, 18 June 1867\nCans Leberman Co., at Philadelphia, to John M. McLean. 18 June 1867. Copy.\nItem 13: J.M. Bradstreet \u0026amp; Son, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 24 June 1867\nItem 14: Penniman \u0026amp; Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis, 8 July 1867\nPenniman \u0026amp; Brother, at Baltimore, to Alexander M. Davis. 8 July 1867.\nItem 15: William Edwards to Jerry Lovelace, 24 June 1868\nWilliam Edwards to Jerry Lovelace. 24 June 1868. Note: This letter includes a receipt for money paid William Edwards.\nItem 16: J.B. Barrett \u0026amp; Co., at Wytheville, Va., to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson county, Va.], 1 July 1868\nItem 17: Merchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 15 September 1868\nMerchants Union Law Company, at New York, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va. 15 September 1868. Printed circular letter. Enclosures: Printed subscription blank and envelope.\nItem 18: Robert Crockett, Jr., at Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., to Col. John Dickenson, 13 April 1869\nItem 19: P.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis], 17 July 1869\nP.F. Howard, at Richmond, to [Alexander M. Davis]. 17 July 1869. Printed circular letter.\nItem 20: Alexander P. Matthews, at Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Alexander M. Davis, 19 July 1869\nItem 21: A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller, October 1869\nA[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., to J.C. Miller. October 1869. Copy\nItem 22: L.I. Leberman, at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 November 1869\nItem 23: Kent Paine \u0026amp; Co., at Richmond, to John Dickinson, at Nuckollsville, Grayson County, Va., 7 December 1869\nItem 24: John Dickenson, at New River, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 3 February 1870\nItem 25: A.M. Young, at Spring Valley, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1870\nItem 26: W. de V. Corning [?], Postmaster, at Wytheville, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 4 [?] June 1870\nItem 27: Shipley, Roane \u0026amp; Co., at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 11 June 1870\nItem 28: J.C. Miller, at Louisville, Ky., to [?], 13 July 1870\nItem 29: Gilmore \u0026amp; Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 18 July 1870\nGilmore \u0026amp; Derrick, at Marion, [Smyth County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis. 18 July 1870. Enclosure: Receipt for special business tax.\nItem 30: C.G. Elliott, at Hilsville, [Carrol County], Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 December 1870\nItem 31: John McKillop \u0026amp; Co., at Philadelphia, to Alexander M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 9 December 1870\nItem 32: G.E.W. Herring \u0026amp; Son, at Baltimore, to A[lexander] M. Davis, 27 December 1870\nItem 33: John McKillop \u0026amp; Co., at Philadelphia, to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Richmond, Va., 12 January 1871\nItem 34: William H. H. Cowl, at Wilkesboro, N.C., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 24 May 1871\nItem 35: Mastin Hail to [?], 16 March 1872\nItem 36: William A. Burwell, at Patrick Court House, Va., to Col. [Alexander M.] Davis, 16 August 1872\nItem 37: Armstrong, Cator \u0026amp; Co., at Baltimore, to Davis \u0026amp; Dickenson, 29 December 1872\nItem 38: George W. Cornett, at Elk Creek, [Grayson County], Va., to A. F. Gregory, at Johnson City, Tenn., 5 February 1873\nItem 39: Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at Washington, D.C., to A[lexander] M. davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 8 February 1873\nItem 40: John Goode, Jr., at Norfolk, Va., to [?], 16 April 1873\nItem 41: C.W. Jones, at Marion, [Smyth County], to [?] Dickerson, 26 April 1873\nItem 42: C.A. Wetherow, at Nuckollsville, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 1 October 1873\nItem 43: Miss S. J. Cooke, at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 9 January 1874\nItem 44: T.M. Oglesby, at Muckollsville, Va., to Davis and Dickenson, 28 January 1874\nItem 45: S.M. Fulton, at Summerfield, Grayson County, Va., to A[lexander] M. Davis, 10 February 1874\nItem 46: W.J.T. Slum, at Glenn Springs, S.C., to A[lexander] M. Davis, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., 17 July 1874\nItem 47: A. Oppenheimer, at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026amp; Dickenson, 17 February 1875\nItem 48: James H. Baldwin, at Wytheville, Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 21 December 1875\nItem 49: Joseph W. Davis, at Elmwood, to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 7 March 1876\nItem 50: Mrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis, 3 July 1876\nMrs. M. Newman, at Wytheville, to Mrs. Davis. 3 July 1876. Note: This letter includes an account.\nItem 51: F.J. Lundy, at Independence, [Grayson County], Va., to Col. A[lexander] M. Davis, 13 August 1877\nItem 52: A.L. Ellet \u0026amp; Co., at Richmond, Va., to Davis \u0026amp; Dickenson, at Independence, Grayson County, Va., 17 September 1877\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem 1: Day book of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1873-1874\nDay book of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1873-1874. 236 pages. 14 1/2 x 6 inches.\nItem 2: Accounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis, 1851-1890\nAccounts, invoices, notes and receipts of Col. Alexander M. Davis. 1851-1890. 57 pieces.\nItem 3: Accounts of the estates of Mrs. Mary Dickenson and of Martin Dickenson, 1873\nAccounts of the estates of Mrs. Mary Dickenson and of Martin Dickenson. 1873. 2 pieces.\nItem 4: Other accounts, invoices, receipts and tax bills, 1854-1881\nOther accounts, invoices, receipts and tax bills. 1854-1881. 15 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_20"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_392#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_392#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_392#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_392.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Austin-Twyman Papers","title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1765-1939"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1765-1939"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1765/1939"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939"],"text":["Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939","Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392","Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century","Legal documents","Medicine--Practice--Virginia","Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Slaves--United States--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--History--War of 1812","Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates","Account books","Correspondence","Manuscripts (document genre)","10,764.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date. Also available on microfilm University Publications of America.","Additional information may be found at: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00045.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.","The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. Photographs.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939"],"collection_ssim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"places_ssim":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"creator_ssm":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creator_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family"],"creators_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831","Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased: 10,706 items, 1969."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Legal documents","Medicine--Practice--Virginia","Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Slaves--United States--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--History--War of 1812","Virginia. 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Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e513 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp; Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp; Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e218 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e390 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e383 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e229 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026amp; undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e219 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp; Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp; Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp; Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e71 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e69 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e302 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e223 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e250 items. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e118 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e106 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e161 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items. 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include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. Photographs."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)"],"names_coll_ssim":["James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"famname_ssim":["Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family"],"persname_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":571,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:43:51.432Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_392.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Austin-Twyman Papers","title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1765-1939"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1765-1939"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1765/1939"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939"],"text":["Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939","Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392","Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century","Legal documents","Medicine--Practice--Virginia","Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Slaves--United States--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--History--War of 1812","Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates","Account books","Correspondence","Manuscripts (document genre)","10,764.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date. Also available on microfilm University Publications of America.","Additional information may be found at: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00045.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.","The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. 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Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e513 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp; Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp; Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e218 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e390 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e383 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e229 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026amp; undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e219 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp; Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp; Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp; Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e71 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e69 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e302 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e223 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e250 items. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e118 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e106 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e161 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. 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include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. 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Cooke of Powhatan, Virginia and the Barker family of Fluvanna County, Virginia. Includes letters relating to the hiring out of slaves, plantation operations and the Civil War. Civil War letters are between John H. Barker and Henry J. Dobbs of the 18th Virginia Regiment of the Confederate army concerning the Battle of First Bull Run/Manassas.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James E. Cooke and the Barker family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Detailed instructions for plantation operations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters concerning hiring out to others of slaves belonging to Cooke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Includes 8 August 1861 to sister M. J. Barker\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Includes letter of John H. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Processed by Lisa Lee and Elizabeth Engelken in 1989.","The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia. Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","The letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.","The letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.","The letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.","This document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.","The letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.","The letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","A letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript.","The letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.","The letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.","The letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.","The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.","The letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.","A.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.","A.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.","Lucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript.","A second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript.","Macon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.","George acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.","James notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.","Lucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.","Lucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.","Mary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.","Mary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.","Bun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.","Lucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.","She sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.","This folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Account of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.","Accounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.","Account of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.","Accounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.","An account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.","Receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.","A receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Annual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.","A list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","The letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.","The letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.","The letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.","This document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.","The letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.","The letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","A letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript.","The letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.","The letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.","The letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.","The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.","The letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.","A.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.","A.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.","Lucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript.","A second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript.","Macon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.","George acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.","James notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.","Lucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.","Lucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.","Mary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.","Mary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.","Bun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.","Lucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.","She sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.","This folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Account of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.","Accounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.","Account of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.","Accounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.","An account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.","Receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.","A receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Annual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.","A list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMacon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Processed by Lisa Lee and Elizabeth Engelken in 1989.","The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia. Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","The letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.","The letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.","The letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.","This document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.","The letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.","The letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","A letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript.","The letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.","The letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.","The letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.","The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.","The letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.","A.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.","A.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.","Lucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript.","A second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript.","Macon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.","George acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.","James notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.","Lucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.","Lucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.","Mary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.","Mary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.","Bun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.","Lucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.","She sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.","This folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Account of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.","Accounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.","Account of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.","Accounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.","An account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.","Receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.","A receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.","Receipt of Rufus K. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia.","The letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.","The letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.","The letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.","This document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.","The letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.","The letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","A letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript.","The letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.","The letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.","The letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.","The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.","The letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.","A.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.","A.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.","Lucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript.","A second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript.","Macon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.","George acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.","James notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.","Lucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.","Lucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.","Mary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.","Mary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.","Bun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.","Lucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.","She sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.","This folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Account of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.","Accounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.","Account of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.","Accounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.","An account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.","Receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.","A receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Annual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.","A list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMacon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_40"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2023","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, 1784/1934, bulk 1830/1892","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_2023#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_2023#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection has been organized into six series.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.","Series 2 includes papers from various sources.","Series 3 is the plat of Ewell property.","Series 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.","Series 5 is a scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. There are some handwritten poems and many published poems in the newspaper clippings. (Acc. No. 2008.196)","Series 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)","Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., June 10, 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth Stoddert. He graduated from United States Military Academy and taught there. He taught at Hampden- Sydney College and at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1848, he was elected professor of mathematics and acting president of College of William and Mary and in 1854, became president. He was colonel of 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment and later assistant adjutant-general to Joseph E. Johnston. He was president of William and Mary 1854-1888 and died in 1894. He was the brother of Richard Stoddert Ewell, had another brother, William Stoddert, a sister Elizabeth S. Ewell, and a daughter, Elizabeth S. Ewell Scott.","Elizabeth Ewell was the mother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth S. Ewell was the sister of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell was the daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell was the brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell was the brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Thomas Ewell was the father of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Thomas Ewell was the father of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth L. Scott was the granddaughter of Benjamin S. Ewell.","R. Ewell Scott was the grandson of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Julia McIlvaine Ewell was the wife of Benjamin Ewell.","The original finding aid references \"Photographs of pages from the Ewell Family Bible\"; however, these were not located with the collection as of April 11, 2018. Karen King, SCRC Staff.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 1 titled \"Letters, A-B\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 1 titled \"Letters, A-B\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 1 titled \"Letters, A-B\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 2 titled \"Letters, C-D\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 2 titled \"Letters, C-D\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folders 3 and 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folders 3 and 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folders 3 and 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 5, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 6, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 6 and Box 3, Folder 7, Subseries titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 7, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 8, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 8, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 9, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 9, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 10, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 10, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 12, titled \"Letters, H\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 12, titled \"Letters, H\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 13, titled \"Letters, I-K\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 14, titled \"Letters, L-M\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 14, titled \"Letters, L-M\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 15, titled \"Letters, N-R\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 16, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 16, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 17, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 17, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 18, titled \"Letters, T-Z\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 18, titled \"Letters, T-Z\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 19, titled \"Letters from unknown persons\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 19, titled \"Letters from unknown persons\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 22, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","Item is currently missing. K. King 4/11/2018.","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00084.frame","Letter was not found in this collection during digitization. May have been separated and in Office of the President. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, UA 2.06, Box 1, folder 3.","Acc. 2011.020 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011.","Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers in the Swem Library Special Collections' University Archives section (UA 2.06). See also a report (entitled 'diary') of B. S. Ewell, April-August 1864 (Box 5, Vol. 5) in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers for a discussion of Williamsburg during the War.","At the York County Heritage Trust:\nFolder 13416: Letter from George Hay Kain to Isabel Small, September  11, 1950 and September 14, 1950; reply from Isabel Small to George Kain, September 12, 1957 (Information on McIlwaine family residence location in York and recollections of Gen. Jubal Early's visit to the family at request of Gen. Richard Ewell, Julia's brother-in-law). -On  microfilm: The Republican newspaper, April 17, 1839, marriage announcement of Benjamin S. Ewell to Julia Ann McIwaine, April 16, 1839; also bound Marriage Index to York Newspapers 1783-1850 entry. -Folder 19684, The Jere Kere Carl Scrap Book, Vol. 19, pg. 160, obituary of Mrs. Julia Ewell.","This collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","The letter is in reference to the Revolutionary War claim of the Stoddert family.","Two letters, one including a receipt.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Note: This letter includes a recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as a professor, signed by five professors at the United States Military Academy.","The letters discusses the death of Aunt Rebecca due to consumption.","The note discusses Aunt Rebecca's death.","General Ewell brought her here with her mother. The army is at Liberty Hills. Campbell Brown joined them for the celebration. The General says the army may go on to Baltimore. \"The Cheryb\" in Richmond may have their leg amputated. General Long, Fitzhugh Lee, Col. Chambliss, Major Gresiand, and Mr. Smith are there. Brown writes of family news and boarding house arrangements. She sends congratulations on General Magruder's victory at Sabine Pass.","Brown writes that Elizabeth's letter arrive with some grom General Ewell and Campbell. The army is moving soon. She had been at Stony Lonesome and the windows and fences are ruined. She relates news of the capture of nine Yankees by Captain Jones, General Gordon's aide-de-camp at Bristol.","She writes more from Brandy Station and is going back to Charlottesville. She notes that General Ewell must get a new artificial leg. The officers' spirits are still high.","See also Harriot S. Turner.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2. formerly William and Mary College Papers.","A short unsigned letter. On same sheet: Thomas Ewell, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","This letter includes two others: Lizinka Campbell to her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet) and Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (also on the same sheet.)","This letter also includes a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","This letter also contains a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship, Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. The recommendation is for Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","The letter advises Colonel Ewell that his state of health makes him unable to serve in the field.","2 copies.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers.","Crump writes that he needs the exact information on the burning of Richmond tobacco warehouses because of a lawsuit. He asks if General Ewell set the fires at General Lee's order.","An invitation to the marriage reception of their daughter. Enclosures: Two cards, Emmy A. Crump and William B. Lightfoot.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Deas writes of Ewell's promotion to Colonel, 32nd Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. He asks that Ewell please report to Richmond Headquarters.","A certificate of dismission of Benjamin S. Ewell from Hampden Sidney Church and of recommendation to the church at Lexington, Virginia.","On same sheet.","This letter contains an extract from the Register of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1850.","The contents of this folder were previously housed in Box 1, folder 3, \"Letters, E\".","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Benjamin Ewell writes about life at West Point. He comments on current literature. He spent the last two years studying mathematics, which will never be of any service until he should become a teacher.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. The lack of funds keeps him from coming home for vacation. He worries over Congress's changes for West Point. He asks her to please make five more shirts.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. Exams are over. Life at West Point is confining. He will not go to Tennessee, but is grateful for the other.","Benjamin Ewell thanks his uncle for his generosity, but doubts Mr. Ewell will let Richard come to him. Ewell will not stay in the Army. There is no chance to advance unless there is a war. He may go into Legal Studies, having ambition and political interest. However, lacking money, he may set other goals. The possibility of war with France might change the situation.","(This letter is likely dated as 1836. Lizinka was born in 1820 and she is mentioned as being age 16. Ewell was not at West Point, nor Rebecca at Bladensburgh, in 1838.)","Benjamin writes he has dispersed some pictures and kept only good ones. They discuss dyspepsia, a \"many headed monster\". The war with France has been averted. Lizinka enjoyed Washington too much for a girl so young. He was riding with a French lady when her horse bolted, which led to rumors of his elopment.","Ewell writes that he cannot reconcile two laws, referring to the raising of troops. He asks which is valid. The answer by S. Bassett French, aide de camp, dated February 26, 1862, on back of sheet, notes that Virginia law rather than Congress is binding. If 20 in a camp reenlist, he will fill in the rest of the numbers.","Note: Map of Richmond and vicinity on back of letter.","Benjamin discusses the people and land of east Tennessee, as well as the Lousiana Volunteers. He says the Confederates will win if not greatly outnumbered. Uncle Dick should come; he is needed by the Army.","Ewell notes that he is glad Uncle Dick didn't come. The Yankees grow bolder, stealing horses. He hopes the Yankees will not be hard on Williamsburg in consequence of new attacks. He writes had Fort Magruder had been where it ought, Williamsburg could have been saved. It its destruction is truly important to success, Ewell would let it go down without a murmur.","Ewell writes a letter of farewell to his family. Battle is imminent.","Ewell writes of the Battle at Big Black River near Vicksburg. 24,000 men against 75,000 and they were at a disadvantage being hemmed in by the river and a small bridge. He says losing Vicksburg was an unexcusable blunder. He notes that Tennessee regrets their secession. The Yankees are not gentlemen.","Thanks for genealogy. Didn't know Lowndes Jackson had information. Sends $100. Lizzie hasn't returned to Prince Edward, but may settle near here.","There are indications this letter may have been written by Richard S. Ewell rather than Benjamin. \nLife as prisoner. Accused of burning Richmond, but mob did it.  No troops and citizens refused to form constabulary. Story of capture.  Louis should live in Europe, especially England. Lyzinka now in Nashville. If she meets General Hitchcock or Auger [?], ask Brown to be put with general officers. Get Ben to find his luggage and grandfather's sword. Though \"the performance of that wretch Booth\" will permit no indulgence for officers.","Most of furniture gone. Thanks for offer of Stony Lonesome furniture, but no place to put it, and future uncertain. Silver left with the Gatts, also blankets and valuables originally left with Wallers. G, glad she hadn't come south.","Thanks for letter. Did not apply for pardon at suggestion of Gen. Patrick, U.S.A., not in service of Confederate Army at surrender. Took oath as soon as possible. Humbug. Always a rebel. Means of living now as a plucked chicken is to feathers, but no regrets. Johnston the one great military leader. Thanks Gantt for offer of help.","He and Lizzie will try to attend Harriot's wedding, but short of money.  Advice on marriage to Harriot, hold her tongue which often ridicules, especially as Major Turner is Catholic and she will convert.","Thanks for glasses. Sorry not to see her in Baltimore.  What will become of the South?","Lyzinka's poor relations \"pecking\" one, lack of money. People still don't realize condition, or future. If Yankees don't buy land, people will starve. What sort of school is Richard considering?  If 200 young ladies, he will come; but 200 \"wild boys from the West\" will take consideration. Thinks he can find gun and will send it. Received check for $50 from Lyzinka for Lizzie, who will acknowledge it.  If Lyzinka will send $10,000 to rebuild College it would help, for double the amount she can endow a professorship. P.S. re (Waterson's?) editorship of Chattanooga Rebel.","Encloses small check.  Things are gloomy, but to be expected.","Left off stamp on last letter, may cost $50 penalty unless she can put one on. If one of them dies now, loss to survivors irreparable.","Her duty to get whole family into Purgatory- and out. Thanks for pamphlet from the Priest. Liking for Catholic Church.","Received 2 letters from Becca in Georgetown.  Cousin Francis must be getting better. Fine gentleman and great Christian.  Becca has probably gone to Stony Lonesome.","Amount to be paid by Richard, like Vicar of Wakefield to get rid of poor relations, but bid higher. Richard's health might be better if he led more active life. See a good doctor. Perhaps go to Europe till political crisis is over. Charges of treason are nonsense. If Negroes restored to former position, love and good will will return. People in Williamsburg not working to support themselves, need Yankees here [near?] for industry. Send notes of campaigns. Lee was not a great leader! Wants data to support this.","Will not go to Hampton-Sydney, but would like to go to a small farm to while away time.  Washington College at the moment carries the day- but not for long; if Lee tried, college will be political, Bessie well.","Had a book belonging to Georgetown Convent which was carried off with rest of his books, so he is in Convent's debt. Family matters in Tennessee.  Sends $70, please acknowledge.","Campbell feels badly over loss of management of farm. Customs of Dutch and English on patrimony. If possible, divide this land now [?] between Harriot and Campbell, keeping a part to live on. Lyzinka can help Dick buy a farm.  Ben Weems has arrived, a sound fellow, but gauche.","On hand bill advertising the College. Richard didn't stay long enough at springs to benefit.  Story of 2 soldiers in Arizona, hell proves to be hotter.","Enclosures, three clippings of Ewell's letters to the editor of New York Times. 1 clipping titled A Southern College.","Enclosures: Letter from Beverly S. Scott, Jr., at Prince Edward Court House, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 5 September 1867. Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Beverly S. Scott. 9 September 1867","Enclosing letter from Charles McCulloch to Benjamin S. Ewell. 3 October 1870.","Ewell writes that Judge Crump needs the exact statement on General Ewell's orders to burn the tobacco warehouses. Was the order not made twice by General Lee, \"ill judged, harsh, and unnecessary.\" The general's reputation is at stake. Ewell asks how the Scotchmen are working out and would he please come for a month's visit.","\"\"The South and Grant\", from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, 20 May 1872","Enclosures: Two designs for a cemetery monument.","Enclosure: A letter from J. H. Richards, at Georgetown College, West Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C. 29 April 1892.","Elizabeth writes of Paul's severe illness. If he dies, she deems it God's will and they should not mourn too much. Paul dies on March 26th. The burial will be in Centreville. This is more reason than ever for Ben to take care of his health.","Rebecca Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.) Elizabeth S. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes that Richard may bring Liz down from Washington to Brookgrove. She mentions his attempts to get an appointment. Richard saved them all from a mad dog. She goes on to discuss family matters and neighbors.","Elizabeth asks why Benjamin has not written or come. She wanted the pleasure of making his clothes. Tom left for Buckland, Tennessee alone. He has grown so much he was taken for Richard. Richard does well at West Point, but will probably not win Lizinka.","Elizabeth sends family news. Richard does well at West Point. Tom arrived in Nashville. Tasker is joining a law office in Marlboro.","Postscript signed: R. L. E.","The letter includes a check drawn by Elizabeth Ewell payable to Benjamin S. Ewell dated September 18, 1838.","Elizabeth asks Benjamin about his married life and their new home. She tells him to look after William most carefully, buy him a bed and enough bedding. Ben's horse is well looked after. Mrs. Smith is most unwell after her daughter's death from a malignant fever. She cannot visit him because of lack of money, but such a visit would be good for Liz.","Postscript by A. Gantt.","Elizabeth sends family news. Ben Gantt is in Norfolk for three months while the Delaware is refitted. She requests that Ben ask him to visit. The Temperance Movement is growing. Richard will lose out of his United States Bank notes since the bank failed. She includes Lord Byron's view of Catholicism. Richard is at the garrison in Arkansas.","Elizabeth writes that Becca will come if really needed, but the trip is too expensive for pleasure, nor can Elizabeth afford to visit herself. Mr. Fowler's failure caused a loss of $20,000 by Mrs. Pront, his sister. Family members may also have money with him. She mentions that Liz is giving out a Miraculous Medal and is too wrapped up in the Catholic Church. Friends send gifts of fruit tree and garden supplies.","Postscript by R. L. Ewell.","Elizabeth reports news that Levi was killed in the Mexican War. His mother is heartbroken.","Ewell (Elizabeth) to her daughter, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet.","Two undated letters.\nThe first letter is undated: Becca carried home by mistake Ben's letter to E. William escorted Becca home, after preaching twice. Richard's letter of 12/31/51, he is leaving Fort Defiance. Liz to teach Mrs. Hunter's children. Aunt Becca will visit E. in spring. Many deaths at the Johnsons. Regrets new carriage. Love to Julia and Liz. Tenants' rents in arrears, accounts confused. Grandfather Stoddert's war payments being looked into by Mr. Lowndes.  Tasker has sent draft for $114. \nThe second letter on the same sheet is dated March 4, 1852: Glad Ben will come for her, can also go to Jackson to see Aunts, Tom, etc.  Convention being held at Methodist Church. Judge Tucker most important at Convention. Harriet Stoddert graduates soon, may come to Jackson with E. and B.  2p.","Elizabeth S. Ewell, to her father, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Hattie Turner to her cousin, William Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","A. L. Prout to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Lizzie visiting Mrs. Vest. John Petit recently married. Seeming \"ghostly noises\" at President's House, Lizzie's health improved.  E's current reading. Ben building a house at the farm.  He would not have bought so much land, but thought Richard would join him in the purchase, \"the property\" (Stony Lonesome) was fairly purchased by E's husband.  Marstellars [?] tried to get some of W's money from his agent, but failed.","Received much mail. Liz had bad fall on way to a pupil, is to be regular organist at her church. Harriet sent copies of commendation letters for Richard's application as Paymaster from Gen. Scott etc.  Cannot establish her relationship to the Craigheads, but Campbells and Browns related to them. William has too many jobs, as postmaster are his letters mailed free?  Did he receive music Sally Edloe [?] sent?  Lizzy very popular. Deaths and illnesses in neighborhood.  Governor wants to reorganize the College, Ben can get professorship elsewhere if necessary. Aunt Stoddert wants him to come to Oxford University, Mississippi.","Mr. Wilmer preached today. His baby son died recently of cholera.  Commencement party. Mr. Miner's fatal bath. Excited meeting of the College Board.  Gov. Wise wanted to make all State colleges subsidiary to U.Va., but was defeated, but Law School abolished to everyone's regret. Ben resigned the Presidency, will take Chair of Mathematics.  Changes in faculty. Ben wanted William at the College as assistant in Languages and Chaplain, but turned down by Mr. Smead, the Professor of Language. Governor Wise wants to move College to Accomac for sea air.  Liz borrowed money from Ben and has not repaid it, please take it from her money for land. Becca sent ill-tempered letter from Washington.  Lyzinka wants E. to join her in Tennessee, but trip too expensive.  E's fondness for one student.  Letter from Liz, Campbell Brown graduated with high honors, Mr. Beale's board money stolen.\n14 September, 1858, 4p.: Ben resigned Presidency, not his professorship.  If he leaves President's House, the farm house near completion, on 500 acres.  E. does not want to make W's improvements at Stony Lonesome, and Ben needs the money, on which W. could pay taxes.  Mrs. Lowndes died last week to cancer.","Sends $25, get receipt. Powells tried to charge E. twice for furniture, but receipt proved her right. Lizzie goes to York soon. Mr. Stringfellow stopped on way to Gloucester. Please send stationary, black gloves, silk for aprons.","Two undated letters. One mutilated.\nLizzy's over her illness, only a sore throat, but Julia has a cold.  Richard sent 2 articles from New Orleans, about soldiers on parade.  House guests there, Julia gets papers from York, but no letter. Complains about everyone. Tom will send $300, but where? Tom at Jackson on Oct. 2, had some trouble with his men.  Dr. Maxley [?] dined there, will take Julia riding today… Explained diagram of Monterey to Lizzy.\nWilliam came home last night. Heavy rains, W. much shaken by Tom's death.  Julia received political paper. Hopes Lizzy is well. Found the handkerchief L. was hemming.","Two undated letters, both addressed to Cadet B.S. Ewell, Military Academy  at West Point.  \nLetter dated April 17: Paul's death. Aunt Harriet wants Ben to study law in Tennessee. Tom dislikes math. Dick is lazy. Why has Ben's standing gone down in natural philosophy? Must work harder.\nLetter dated April 29: Low much will it cost for Ben to come home?  Paul's death hastened by saving travel money and walking.","Richard not being kept from school by Elizabeth, but of his own accord.  Tom studying Vergil. Liz staying at Brookgrove until Ben can bring her home. Aunt Rebecca has been visiting for 2 or 3 weeks, Aunt Campbell wants to leave Philadelphia, but Lyzinka's progress on harp prevents her, Mrs. Rutledge bringing her 2 daughters to the Point, Becca's health bad, Liz offered $350 to teach in Bladensburg, but declined.  Copy of letter to Mr. Taliaferro [?] about her son's application to the Point.  \nRichard (Thursday) has been enjoying school all week.  \nRichard's postscript. Local News.","Ben too slow in answering letters, paying too much postage, many government men turned out of office. Her memories of bad management in Washington. Sally Lee (Cockerille?) now boarding with Elizabeth at $82 [?] a year. Debating society being spoiled by certain members. Pinched for money. Elizabeth has 13 students.  \nRebecca corrects her mother's misinformation.  Becca is principal teacher, but unpaid.\nRebecca Ewell to Benjamin Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters.","Two letters. \nFebruary 26: Elizabeth's illness, Greenville schoolboys unruly. Liz going to Georgetown. Quotation from Adam's papers.  Tom's poem on Mexican War.\nAugust 2: Mr. Slaughter (minister) now preaching, Aunt Nancy's illness. Ben a lady's man, in love with all 5 Berkley daughters. Tasker, also in love. Making slip covers, Tom reading Sallust.  \nPostscript to Ben: E. has paid part due gales + seaton, don't overpay them. The Tyler's kindness. Trip to Springs would help Aunt Nancy.","Two letters. \nThe first letter discusses nNews of farm. Tom studying Caesar, soon on Virgil, Mr. Meeder his tutor. Current books. News of neighbors.  Liz may stay with Aunt Nancy, as long as she pleases.","Elizabeth S. Ewell to her sister, Rebecca L. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two items. The letter care of Mr. Kingman: Why didn't R. arrive when she said?  Mrs. Kingman welcome to visit. Tom back from Nashville. Ben has moved to Dr. Gardiner's. News of neighbors.\nThe second letter is care of Mr. Prout, May 5: Aunt C. and Lyzinka coming in July.","New clothes being made or purchased. Visits to neighbors, going with Aunt Nancy to see about money owed by government to Benjamin Stoddert Estate.","Sorry to have Becca leave, did Richard then go directly to Baltimore?  Visitors. William enjoying Hampden Sydney. Negroes there restless.  Carriage being mended. Becca must collect rent, as bills are due.","An unsigned letter to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","The musical score of a cotillion and a postscript by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell, appear on the same sheet.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes of Virginia's death. Her mother is ill with dysentary ever since. She tells Benjamin he can come home if he wants. She discusses Virginia's funeral.","Ben's letter unsatisfactory. Miss Bankhead's and Dad's wedding. Horses at farm not too satisfactory, but carriage too expensive.  Gen. Scott's defense from Court Martial. Letter from Uncle William, he will take care of Tom's education. Aunt C. wants Tom to stay in Nashville, where Lyzinka teaches him French. Elizabeth hopes he is now settled in Jackson, Nashville is too luxurious. New Minister has come, stayed one night at Ewell's, wants to board there, girls going to several weddings and parties. Postscript by Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","Elizabeth writes that returning from her ride, she found Rosanna and Fanney Ewell waiting for her. She discusses General Van Ness and Major Minor's unexpected and untimely visit, noting Van Ness's bragging and the Major's amiability. The General invited her mother to live at his house in Washington. A dog was hung for stealing sheep. The post office moved from Greenwich.","Ewell (Elizabeth S.) to Rebecca L. Ewell, at Bladensburgh, Prince George's County, Maryland. Postmarked Buckland. 21 May 1838. (On same sheet.)","The letter is directed to Mrs. Ann Gantt, at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia.","This letter is readdressed to Professor Ewell, Prince Edward County, Virginia, with a postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","She writes that vVery important information about Jesse Ewell's papers was found in Manassas, with G. Washington's survey of his land, etc. Letters from Thomas Ewell to Jesse were found.","Stoddert genealogy.","She writes of Bessie Scott's visit and complications of the family estates. The college had Centenniel. She sends him a journal of it.","Elizabeth S. Ewell sends a letter of sympathy on Benjamin's death. She remarks on Lizzie's constant gentleness and is sorry Ben did not write Richard's life.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters. One is written in July from Georgetown. The other was written Noevmber 14 from Georgetown.","Three letters.","An invitation to the marriage ceremony of their daughter.","Enclosure: Post card from Susan Hutchison, at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, to Jesse Ewell, at Ruckersville, Virginia, 8 January 1913. Postmarked 1914.","Dr. Jesse Ewell, Jr. announces the birth of his son Jesse, the sixth Ewell in line of the name and one of three now living. Part of his father's family still lives in Prince William. Grandfather is 84 years old and his wife, 86. Jesse hopes Benjamin will come to visit.","Jesse recounts Revolutionary War memories of his grandfather Ewell and Charles Ewell's friendship with Jefferson from college days.","This letter contains corrections and additions to the Ewell genealogy, going back to the first immigrants and through the Revolutionary War.","Lizinks writes to Ben, requesting him to visit so her engagement can be announced in Tennessee. Her marriage to Captain Scott will also be there, at Richard's house.","Lizinka sends her condolences on Becca's death. She asks if Ben would come to Tennessee for her wedding.","Paul writes of Aunt Nancy's severe illness and his own. He says Mother will send money if Ben needs it to come home. He shares news of friends. It is very cold, snow six to eight feet deep, and many cattle and sheep have died. Aunt Nancy may go to Tennessee for her health. If by carriage, then Paul will drive.","Postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Postscript by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Postscript by A. Gantt","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Enclosure: manuscript copy of an account of T. Ewell with his father.","Harriot Campbell, at Nashville, Tennessee, to Betsy Ewell. 1 July 1838. (On same sheet.)","Lizinka Campbell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Harriot Campbell to her sister, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Thomas Ewell to Harriet Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","Four undated letters, May 28, October 22, November [?], and September 17.","Invitation to a tea.","Additional messages from Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell and from A. Gantt to Benjamin S. Ewell are on this same sheet.","The letter is a request, by order of General Lee, that Ben organize a battalion for the defence of the neck of land between the James and York, as soon as possible.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, with resolutions of the board thanking Benjamin S. Ewell for his services as an instructor and officer of the college.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, to Benjamin S. Ewell, notifying him of his election to the chair of mathematics.","A letter from James L. Kemper, Governor of Virginia, at Richmond, to Harry Heth is on this same sheet.","Three letters.","Two letters.","Two letters.","An invitation to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1877.","Thanks for E's kindness to J. in hospital.","Witty letter that Jenkins needs a wife.","Memories of early days of the War relived at Edisto[?]., present work on plantation.","Sorrow at devastation of War.  S. depressed.","Judge Tucker's death.  Plans for new instructors at College.","Farming very bad in Texas. W, would J. do better on farm in Tidewater and be able to send his sons to school?","Notification of Ewell's appointment to faculty of T.U. as Professor of Math at @$1200/p.a.","Invitation to a soiree dansante to be given in honor of General Joseph E. Johnston. Enclosure: card of admission.","Johnston will visit Ewell soon in Williamsburg.  Is looking for a suitable line of business.","Appreciates E's offer to give E's place [President of College] to J., who cannot accept. J. asked to accept presidency of Express Company being formed. J. may visit Williamsburg in 4 or 5 weeks.","Glad the faculty interested in Mr. Mitchell.  Glad E. thought of defense of Mr. Barbour.","Thanks for the fine map.  Returns surplus College seals.","If E. remembers Henry Watterson, whose letter is enclosed, would he write letter of recommendation?  J's nephew Robert Hughes is a student at William and Mary. J. regrets he could not visit Williamsburg, will try again soon.","Arrangements for J.'s travel to Williamsburg.","Would E. \"lop off\" and correct J's latest (enclosed) literary effort?","Hopes their friendship will continue. \"The young lady\" has two suitors.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Thanks to the Colonel for the photograph.  News of death of friends.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as Professor of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy.","Lamb will send Mrs. Scott a copy of his address about Benjamin S. Ewell which is being printed for the alumni.","L. will support E. + W. in election race of B.T. Crump for city judge of Richmond.","Andy Campbell's possible move to Coastal Survey Depart., where Bache would like to place a man like Ewell.  Gantt worried about cholera in St. Louis.","Reasons Richard Ewell was passed over for higher rank in Army.","Lewis will be happy to have Rebecca travel with them.","Thanks Ewell for information concerning Battle of Vicksburg.  Will use it judiciously in writing about the War.","Thanks for condolences on death of Lowndes' sister.","Child's letter.","L. will give R. grape and current cuttings.  Some of the Jefferson relations including Fanny Manning have been staying with Patsy.","L. thanks E. for genealogical information on Lowndes and Tasker families.  L. would like to buy some of the plate left to E. by Cousin Frank, if she must sell it.","Family news.  From one of the daughters of Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond.","Sadness in the family. Elizabeth's visit to York, Aunt Sarah will treat her kindly. [Note on letter says \"written shortly after the War.\" McIlwain was Mrs. Julia Ewell's brother.]","Mc. hopes his daughter Julia [Mrs. Benjamin Ewell] will become more accustomed to Virginia ways, and more sedate.","Sorry Julia is so discontented with life in the country.  Mc. looking for German farmer for Ewell farm.","Proud of Ben's new post  Suspended Pa. specie payments.","Religious revival in York.","Expecting Ben and Julia to visit York within the month.  Baltimore and Susquehanna [?] Railroad just opened to York.","Lawsuit of Church still not settled.","Mc. has placed order for Ben's carriage.  Upcoming election of Harrison and Tyler.","Mc. unable to visit Ewells at this time.","Hopes William [McIlwain, his son] will be taught by Rev. Balentine until College begins next term.","On same sheet:  Wm. McIlwain to his daughter, Julia McIlwain Ewell.\nMc. family worried E's not writing. Mc's sending \"Republican\" to Julia for news of home.  Deaths of York friends.\nTo Julia: Rules of behavior.","Typhoid prevailing. York economy depressed, needs congressional Tarriff Bille to cure.","Hopes Julia can visit York.  More about Tariff Bill.","Regrets that Julia and baby have gone back to Virginia.  Julia left some clothes, now should Mc's' send them?","Mc. involved in land suit. Either Ann or Sarah [his daughters] might visit Ewells next summer.  York growing fast.","William McIlvain, Julia's brother, has at last arrived and is helping Me. in this (?) doctor's office. Scarlet Fever epidemic seems over. Crops in York very good.","Death of McIlvain's brother. Land suit has gone to Supreme Court, settled in Mc's favor.  Polk's election.","On same sheet: Wm. McIlvain to Julia Ewell. Grandfather's advice on how to live and die. Aunt Julia's son died.\nTo Julia: glad she is reconciled to \"conjugal peace.\"","Glad she might visit York.  Her mother, Julia McIwain Ewell, had been visiting at Oxford.","Has Ewell unjustly accused McIlvain of mistreating Julia in his letters?  Julia has displayed bad temper which should be curbed.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Thanks for Ewell's letter.\nThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Colonel Magruder needs Ewell to send all wagons and drivers from Williamsburg area and send them to Magruder at once.  Needs them to provision the forces.","On same sheet.  Mahan, D.H., West Point, N.Y., to Benjamin S. Ewell, Lexington, Va. \nTazewell: Letter of recommendation of Ewell as Professor of Mathematics at William and Mary.\nEwell: - Offer of aid in getting William and Mary position.","Quotation from Mr. Tazewell's letter about Ewell's interest in post at William and Mary.  Suggests Ewell come to Richmond to talk to Dr. Lyons.","Discussion of engineering of Dam for James River Improvement.","Benjamin Ewell's abilities as professor of mathematics.","Enclosure:  a letter from C.F. Mercer, Washington, to Dr. Thomas Ewell, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va. 1826 May 29.\nSorrow at Dr. Ewell's death, enclosing letter to him anyway.  Offer to help Ewell's sons.\nEnclosure:  Will try to place Ewell's son at West Point, but places filled for current year.","News of York, election news.","The books Ewell sent have arrived and will be given to the subscribers.","Printed circular letter requesting aid for the family of John Hampden Pleasants who was killed in a duel.","Monroe will go to Tennessee to run Richard Ewell's farm] if wages can be settled.","Monroe and his sister will go to Tennessee to work for Richard Ewell.","Committee of Senior Class presents parting gift to Ewell.","M. sends gift \"from nature.\"  Kate Custis has arrived.","Miss Copland, M's teacher, described news of Williamsburg's young ladies.  Toured College with Mr. Ewell, who showed her \"new philosophical apparatus.\"  M. will begin Hebrew and Sanskrit next winter.","News of friends, amateur dramatics sorrow that Richmond is no longer happy as during the War.","M.'s sister carrying on flirtation in Richmond. Latest dress styles.  Is E. to marry Mr. Snead? News of family and friends.","Three letters.","Two letters. \n1862 March 27: Encloses letter for Elizabeth to give to cousin Hubbard. Staying at Sarah Rutherford's house on Grace Street. The young men of Richmond.\n1862 April: M's will remain in Richmond until after the battle. Description of her gentlemen callers.","S. sorry E. could not join them.  Yankees came to Fork Church recently.  Railroad cut off between Hanover and Richmond.","Sorrow at General Richard Ewell's injury. Group of Williamsburg men, including Ben Ewell, ] started for Williamsburg from Richmond under flag of truce but were sent back to Richmond. Sorrow at burning of College (Wm. and M.) and churches. Dr. Garnett has died, great friend of Elizabeth's, Bland Taliaferro and Colemans are staying in Richmond.","Encloses letter to be forwarded to Page and Annie Wilmer in Danville. Williamsburg now has church, telegraph, tri-weekly boat and daily mail! Town full of yankees, but few interesting Confederate soldiers.  News of noted townspeople.","News of friends in Army. Gossip.","Mrs. M. send $3.00 for 12 yards of suitable dress material.","Letter giving his opinion of Benjamin S. Ewell as an instructor.","Invitation to E. to attend Washington and Lee University graduation in June, to stay with Nelsons.  Senator Mills and Hon. John Goode to be speakers.","Peachy sends Ewell's deed and notes to be signed and notarized.  Mrs. Scott [E's daughter Elizabeth] leaving for St. Louis to stay two or three weeks. Suggests changing name of \"Stony Lonesome\" to something more cheerful.  Dr. Coleman dead of cancer.","Has prepared a series of math text books; will have his publishers send copies.","The letterbook copies of seven letters describe dDescribes troop movements around Vicksburg.","Discusses troop movements and progress of the war.","Is glad they are friends; visited New Orleans and other places.","Discusses the scandal at West Point; lists army transfers; went to a \"fish frolic\"; saw a phrenologist; is sobering up the troops with punishment.","Letter dated simply March 24. Has a whist club; hopes to be able to pay him $50 soon.","Asks if she will stay in the house; asks if anything has been done about the administration; asks if anything has been done about the Virginia Estate.","Informs him of the death of cousin Nannie.","Sends a poem; hopes the College is doing well.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Is visiting her aunts and other friends, family, a. And servants have been sick.","Received a letter from Vera Cruz written after the battle;, recounts the description of the battle where Levi was killed; wants Richard to come home.","Received a letter from Ben which she quotes about Mexico and Levi's death.","Is enjoying her visit; family news; is going to D.C.","Asks her to meet Aunt Ewell at Buckland; Lizzie is very comfortable in the convent; asks her to send music.","Thinks farmers from New Jersey will emigrate to Virginia but are worried about malarial fevers; has a ditch making machine.","Gives a description of Toddsberry (sic) in Gloucester County.","Sends copy of order electing him professor of military science.","Arrived safely; has warned Miss Rebecca that her hair is ½ inch long; the orchestra was invited to the country.","Tells her she will not become fossilized now that she is married; went calling New Years Day.","Thanks him for his kind letter.","Sends copy of Harrison Genealogy; Clarence W. Borden may try to correspond with him about Washington.","Letter of recommendation for Mr. Ewell.","Is restoring \"Belle Air\" and asks about its history.","Thanks him for information; asks for more information of the house.","Thanks her for information; asks for more information.","Describes teaching; brother is going to North Carolina; neighborhood news.","Describes her trip; family news.","Visited the Munfords; family gossip; recipe for green tomatoes.","Is in love with Mr. Rives; family news; people in Williamsburg are not very frightened.","Visited Mrs. Gilmer; advises her not to see Mary C. who is a disgrace; wants to drive the Yankees away; is afraid she will not be able to go back to her house.","Five undated letters.","Expects to leave the county.","Four undated letters.","Misses her and Williamsburg.","Two undated letters.","Asks about her recent marriage; will miss her.","Has inquired into laws on pay for soldiers of Mexican War, but does not feel she has a claim.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Is happy she is better.","Will send her trunk.","Enjoyed her letter; kKnows that they can be happy in spite of poverty.","Children are well.","Colonel is better.","Describes a theater party; saw Keene as Richard; describes how she wants her dress made.","Will go on day duty tomorrow; has much surgical work; is going to a costume party dressed as a black person.","Lists her classes; had her first experience in the clinic; is in a gynecological ward.","Saw the fire; is on night duty.","Is surprised that Yankees eat cornmeal; they talk about the war very much.","Comments on Miss Boyson's prize essay on Robert E. Lee; calls for an end to sectional prejudice.","Received the box and money; Dr.Carter knows her family; describes her work.","Glad Mary is better; wants family to visit; will send a prescription.","Will make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.","Has not named the baby yet.","Comments on marriage; is happy; is not fond of Page anymore; baby will be baptized Elizabeth Lowndes.","Asks about old family letters; has gone to town; family has been sick.","Would like to visit; think she has had a miscarriage; doesn't want any more children.","College will be opened next session; railroad will be finished by October.","Has been going through her father's papers and has destroyed most of them.","Did not want her daughter to be a nurse; did not like her fiance; would have become a sister of charity if her father had not survived the war.","Has had only one servant; Bessie is doing well with nursing.","Thanks her for gifts; received a letter from Ewell in which he speaks of war in the Philippines; his house was burned by rebels; Bessie is working at Bellevue; does not like doing housework.","Father is well; Ewell is working in Hampton; Benjamin will be going to college.","Father has been sick; Beverly has been sick; Ewell has an engineering job in Pennsylvania.","Encloses notes about the Bladen family; Page Saunders is visiting.","Father is well; Bessie is keeping house.","Mr. Grigsby has been visiting; Beverly is at the Farm.","Received his letter; Bessie has arrived.","Thanks her for the letter; visited Virginia Beach and Takoma.","Asks about Hattie.","Glad she will visit; family news; discusses Tom's death.","Tom may not be dead; Ben and William visited.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Statement concerning Benjamin Ewell by Thomas H. Williamson on same sheet.","Has heard rumors that he has resigned; is glad he resigned.","Informs him of a job at Hampden Sidney; has been offered a job at VMI.","Has been carrying Madison for years; has employed Dr. John Graham as surgeon.","Asks her to write; will travel to Richmond.","Typed transcription. Original letter is located in the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 4.","Acknowledges receipt of his photograph. (The author is Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)","Invitation to become a member of the society. (The author is Henry V. Goold of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England.)","Would like to publish General Ewell's report of Gettysburg, but it has already been published; will be publishing a series of papers on Gettysburg. The author is J. William Jones of the Southern Historical Society.]","News of the family; tells her to take anything of his that she needs.","Mrs. Caruthers [?] received the power of attourney; decribes the local girls.","Mr. Caruthens [?]) has received the amount; family news; has had an earthquake; Uncle Henry's negroes were sold.","Lucy has been sick; comments on death of Ann's mother; Rrebecca is going to Washington; Mary Jane is doing well in school.","Has had a headache attack; asks her to visit.","Stoddert family genealogy information.","Has been visiting Harriott; is thinking about courting a young lady.","Has inquired about getting a West Point appointment for Richard; hopes he will leave the army and be a lawyer.","Will find success in the cities; advice for success.","Tom has arrived and he will take care of him; wants to buy Negroes.","Got her abusive letter; has unsuccessfully tried preaching. The letter is postmarked Prince Edward Court House.","Richard was visiting and has been sick; mother and Becca and Emma [?] are being disagreeable.","Has been preaching; Dr. Tyler died; Mrs. Ewell disappeared and they feared she had run off with her beau.","Mother has left; other family news.","May be able to lend money; does not want mother to visit.","Sends money; mother is going to Giles County.","Directions for care of home; thinks Richard will stay in the army.","Would like to repair the porch; sends directions for care of home.","Has received few letters; murderer has taken to Taos where he confessed; describes San Juan Day celebration; Kit Carson traveled with him to the Indian settlement.","Tells her she writes unpleasant letters; will sent money; directions for care of home.","Can't bear to be parted from his mother;  –feels her death deeply.","Is leaving New Mexico for home.","Is very appreciative; is planning to rent a small house.","Has been sick; visited the seminary.","Advises her on marriage.","Advises her not to go to Williamsburg in the summer; has some pupils.","Received letter on Becca's death.","Yankees stole almost everything from Mrs. Jones; is teaching; is caring for four widows.","Is living at the same place; is teaching.","The first letter relates that he went to Spring Hill where Richard was sick; Richard and Lizinka died.\nThe second letter is from : Elizabeth S. Ewell to Anne. Sends the copy of W.S.'s letter.","Describes death of Richard and Lizinka.","Discusses wills of Richard and Lizinka.","Campbell has money for the monument; discusses inscriptions on the monument.","Law limits the pensions to the immediate family; discusses religion.","Received the coffee pot, but does not drink coffee; believes the Texas matter is settled; enjoys where he is living; the people treat their horses badly.","Lizzie is having trouble with Ewell; –describes his bad behavior; is going to a dinner.","Is having trouble breathing; has made a new will.","Has been busy with church activities; his cook is getting better; is taking Belladonna.","Did not have any pain last night; does not feel he should be alone, is well fixed where he is.","Thinks it would be better for Ewell to go away to school; has been working hard.","Describes his day at college; describes a family quarrel; wrote a good speech.","Two letters. Has been working very hard. Incomplete.","Copy of the order appointing Benjamin S. Ewell to the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.","Apologizes for his conduct.","Thanks him for the paper on coal.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Postscript by Robertt. Weir.","Offers to help him.","Asks for information on Colonel Ewell.","Comments on training of civil engineers.","Has opening for civil engineers. [Trimble was chief Engineer of Baltimore and Susquehanna RRr. at this time].","Congratulates him on his marriage.","Sympathy letter on death of her son.","Colonel. Ewell is sick in Macon [?]; General Ewell is sick; war news.","Her father, General Richard Ewell, and mother have died.","Laments death of her parents.","Thinks Hattie is her most attractive child; thinks Lily is peculiar; has been happy in Williamsburg; Col. Ewell has been sick.\nAlso:  Brown, Campbell, to B.S. Ewell. Encloses the above letter.","Sends a photograph; children are sick; has not named her baby yet.","Two letters. The first relays the news that the General has died; the children are well. The second letter is from October 1, no year. ,Has been in Canada; has found mention of cousin Ben and the General in Appleton's biographical dictionary; St. Louis fair is in progress.","Two letters. The first letter relays the news that Lizinka is in Madeira; Lily was invited to break fast with the king of Portugal.\nThe second letter, circa January 24, 1872, informs the receipient that Mother died.","Two letters. The first letter congratulates her on her marriage to Mr. Scott; advises her on how to handle a husband. The second letter, undated, relates that the author has been reading various novels; does not like George Eliot; describes her children.","There are windows in church for her mother and father. Incomplete.","The letter is addressed to \"Lizzie\". Congratulates her on her marriage.","Inquires about a type of earth called \"bermuda tripoli.\"","Thanks him for his letters.","Letter of recommendation for B.S. Ewell to serve as Secretary of the Interior.","His article will be appearing; invites B.S.E. to visit.","Thanks him for the gift.","Asks for a description of Upshur's [?]) father.","Encloses a letter from C. Gallup asking about B.S. Ewell.","The letter is from William H. Zinsser, New York. He suggests a town patrol to help combat lack of morale at Fort Eustis.","Hopes he will keep teaching.","Certificate of election to membership in the Society.","Uncle Newton got married.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Describes his trip through the Carolinas.","Is sending pigs to Mrs. Scott.","Farming suggestions.","Enclosure: Three sheets of data on farming.","Recalls the war; asks for a picture.","Is planning to go to Mississippi; has visited Annapolis; Uncle William is no longer practicing law, but is engaged in speculation; the ball was a failure due to the local clergy.","An incomplete letter concerning a professorship at Transylvania University. Asks him to write; offers him a job at Lexington; describes the college.","Describes problems with workers and the College.","Hopes a month at headquarters will improve her health; the Howe [?]) boy has been killed; has received tea from England. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","The letter is addressed \"To Lizzie\". Has been sewing; social news.","Relates war news. The letter is from \"Cousin\" in Richmond.","Glad she has not left Richmond; relates war news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Sarah\" [McIlvainez?].","Father says the College will stay in Williamsburg; drunken soldiers almost grabbed her arm; social news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Thanks her for the photograph; has had visitors; father has John Brown in ambrotype. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Family news. The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","Received her letter; family news; had her photograph taken. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Bessie left for Norfolk. The letter is signed by \"Mama\". [This is not from Julia Ewell. Probably from a member of the Hoge (?) family.]","Has been sick; has a new book; family news; Negroes are going to have a celebration; her dog was lost. The letter is signed \"Maymay\".","Misses Richmond; social news. The letter is signed: \"Bee\".","Sent her bundle to mother; Hattie sent a pickle knife and fork; wishes she would not get married; family news. Enclosure: A pencil drawing entitled \"Mary's new walking dress.\" The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","The letter is signed: \"Charlotte\". The author comments on her marriage; has been sick.","One letter signed: \"Aunt Lizzie\"","2 items. Both letters may have been authored by Harriet Brown Turner. \n[1865?] May 7 Letter: Uncle is a prisoner; Captain Turner is taking the Oath of Allegiance; mother was arrested; war news. \n[1865?] May 24 Letter: Mother is still under arrest; Captain Turner has arrived; family news; war news.","3 items. Unsigned.","Ben has been sick and died. Signed: \"Matilda\".","Sends a draft for $69; has sold or hidden goods to keep them from Yankees.","Tried to cross Confederate lines; suggests that Richard Ewell [?] leave for Bermuda where money will be provided.","This letter may be addressed to Thomas Ewell. Incomplete. The author urges him to go on with his research.","Has been visiting Bettie; had a bad time at Mrs. Temple's; may marry Mr. Temple.","Will use the money Ccousin William sent; Hattie Turner visited.","This letter may be authored by Richard Ewell Scott. The author describes his hotel and the soldiers.","12 items.","Series 2 includes papers from various sources","1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.","1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.","This folder contains a rough draft of an address made before the city council of Williamsburg, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.","Colonel Benjamin S. Ewell,  for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)","1 item.","1 item.","SEE OVERSIZE FILE","The deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.","The deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","1 item.","The letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.","1 item. Copy.","1 item.","Signed John Letcher.","Signed John Letcher.","The letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.","Signed James A. Sedden.","Certificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.","Full title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.","USMA Reunion booklet that includes Necrology with published version of \"Benjamin S. Ewell: A Tribute by E.J. Harvie.\" Pages 11-14.","This folder contains a single document: dDeed given by Elizabeth Ewell, widow of Thomas Ewell, et al., of Prince William County, to Alexander Spotswood Grigsby, covering two lots in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: dDraft of deed granting to Benjamin S. Ewell and William Stoddert her interest in a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia.","A memorandum book of which only 19 pages of the 336 pages were written upon. The book contains data on the Ewell family, including several extracts of letters dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.","An greement of Elizabeth S. Ewell, R. S. Ewell, William Stoddert, and Benjamin S. Ewell to carry into effect the will of Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, that was declared invalid by the court","1 item. The article concerns Richard S. Ewell's part in the second capture of Winchester, with a note by H. S. Turner.","Includes a note by Campbell Brown dated November 6, 1873.","A poem written by Dr. H. M. Clarkson for the Ewell centennial celebration held at Manassas, Virginia, by the Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans.","Plat of a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia, surveyed for Dr. Thomas Ewell, 1821","Apothecary's scales used by Dr. Thomas Ewell, surgeon, in the War of 1812.","Copy of a notice in the National Intelligencer announcing the death of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.","Copy.","This folder contains a single letter. The writer notes that this is an extract from a letter written by President James Madison, at Montpelier, to Mr.Edward Coles.","Broadside. Printed circular letter advertising as a summer resort, Belle-Air in Prince William County, Virginia, the old home of the Ewell family.","1 item. An essay on Williamsburg by Elizabeth L. Scott.","This folder contains 58 items. There are papers in English, Spanish, and Japanese, including a Japanese pencil sketch.","Letter from Marquess, W.H., Mexico, Missouri, to W. Stoddert.","Certified copy. Requesting the governor to procure exemption from military duty for employees of Eubanks and Co.,  \u0026 Co., cotton and wool carders.","This folder contains genealogical information, including some from the Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania.","31\" x 36\" Plat of Ewell property showing \"Old line Bowden, Ewell.\"","Series 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.","Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, which is signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries.  A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries. A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Series 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)","The following letters and papers were originally included in the Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, but have been removed:","Letter from 'V. Jefferson Davis' (Varina Davis) at Beauvoir House, Beauvoir, Mississippi, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1890 January 25. This letter acknowledges receipt of the resolutions passed by the citizens of Williamsburg and James City County on the death of Jefferson Davis. This item has been transferred to the Jefferson Davis Papers.","Letter from Sallie Munford at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth Ewell. 1865 May 16. This item has been transferred to Virginia Cities - Williamsburg Papers (Folder 3).","Mason family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Neale family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Photograph of Malachi Gardner, carriage driver of Benjamin S. Ewell. Undated. As of 5/2016, this item has been transferred to the Portrait File: University Archives Photograph Collection, F and S, Gardiner, Malachi. 2 copies.","The letters below were transferred to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collecton) or the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records:","Letter from Robert Nelson at Shanghai, China, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1873 November 10. This item has been transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 139.","Letter from F. N. Page at Shelby, Gloucester County, Virginia, to Professor Benjamin S. Ewell. 1849 April 18.","Letter from Charles F. Richardson at New York, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 1877 March 9.","An act to establish a normal school at William and Mary College. 1888 March 19.","Resolution of the alumni association of William and Mary College, upon the death of Benjamin S. Ewell. 1894 October 1.","Two pages from a report of Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated.","Page 17 of a report by Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated. The report includes a quotation from an address by former president John Tyler to the alumni of William and Mary on the 166th Anniversary.","Page 19 of a paper concerning the establishment of a normal college. Undated.","Printed card containing information about William and Mary College. Undated.","Black certificate of proficiency. College of William and Mary Papers. Undated.","Braxton (Corbin) to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Buckland, Prince William County, Virginia Postmarked Richmond, Virginia, 1848 July 24","Burgess (B.J.), at Wilmington, North Carolina, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1878 November 2","Craik (James), at Louisville, Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1876 September 2","Davies (Charles), at New York, to John Tyler, 1848 April 27. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Ewell (Benjamin S.), at Washington, D.C., to Charles W. Porter, 1872 February 16","Ewell (Elizabeth) to Richard Ewell, 1858 July 9. (See William and Mary Papers, Folder 17, Item 3.)","Ewell (Elizabeth) to William Stoddert, 1858 July 22","Forest (Douglas F.), at Washington, D.C., to the President and Faculty of William and Mary College, 1879 March 26","Fulton (William), at Salisbury, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, 1872 July 29","Gilman (D. C.), at Baltimore, Maryland, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1887 May 28","Griffin (J. L. C.), at Sharon, Mississippi, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1855 January 12","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1868 January 2","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Edgehill, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1872 June 2","Hall (J. Lesslie), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Mrs. Beverly Scott, at Ewell, James City County, Virginia, 1902 February 7","Hobson (Annie J. W.), at Richmond, to Col. Ewell, 1877 September 29","Hoge (Addison), at Oxford, Mississippi, to Col. B. S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1888 May 18","Hough (M.), at Baltimore, to Elizabeth Ewell, daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, 1859 February 9","Lee (J. F.), at Annapolis, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, 1868 January 23","McLane (Robert), at Washington, D.C., to John Tyler and the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College, Virginia, 1848 April 5. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 82, page 2, item 2m papers relating to the appointment of Benjamin S. Ewell to the chair of mathematics, 1848 April 5-27","Meade (William), at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, to Professor Ewell, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1849 March 18. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 99.","Munford (Maria), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth S. Ewell, 1859 October 30","Munford (Maria) to Elizabeth S. Ewell, undated","Smith (R. McF.), at Nashville, Tennessee, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Ewell, Virginia, 1892 October 3. Original letter was transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 127, page 5.","Sweet (Drew), at Waynesville, Ohio, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1887 May 15","Turner (Harriot S.), at Washington, D.C., to Dr. [?] Wise, undated","Turner (Harriot S.) to Dr. Wise, undated","Watkins (F. N.), at Hampden Sidney College, to the Visitors of the William and Mary University, 1848 April 7. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","West (Robert), at North East P.O., Cecil County, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1866 April 8","Wyatt (Charles B.), at San Francisco, California, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1869 April 8","Letter from unknown person to Elizabeth Ewell, undated. Incomplete. Transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 120.","Letter from R. McCandlish at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. Forwarded to Buckland, Prince William County. 1848 July 15.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 2.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This letter was moved to the College Papers Collection, UA 14, Box 5, Folder 4.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collection, UA 14), Box 9, Folder 2. Place holder sheet in folder states: See: William and Mary College papers. folder 138. A second sheet (acidic paper) notes ...taken from Ewell Papers because it mentions honorary degree of L.L.D. conferred by Wiliam and Mary upon Dr. Craik. On separated materials list.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 6, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","Physical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. (39.4 G29). 1 item.","Physical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. (39.4 G29). 1 item.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Office of the President","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","College of William and Mary. 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\"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 6, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 6 and Box 3, Folder 7, Subseries titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 7, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 8, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 8, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 9, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 9, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 10, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 10, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 12, titled \"Letters, H\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 12, titled \"Letters, H\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 13, titled \"Letters, I-K\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 14, titled \"Letters, L-M\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 14, titled \"Letters, L-M\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 15, titled \"Letters, N-R\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 16, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 16, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 17, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 17, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 18, titled \"Letters, T-Z\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 18, titled \"Letters, T-Z\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 19, titled \"Letters from unknown persons\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 19, titled \"Letters from unknown persons\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 22, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","Item is currently missing. K. King 4/11/2018."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00084.frame\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eLetter was not found in this collection during digitization. May have been separated and in Office of the President. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, UA 2.06, Box 1, folder 3.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","General"],"odd_tesim":["Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00084.frame","Letter was not found in this collection during digitization. May have been separated and in Office of the President. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, UA 2.06, Box 1, folder 3."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2011.020 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["Acc. 2011.020 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers in the Swem Library Special Collections' University Archives section (UA 2.06). See also a report (entitled 'diary') of B. S. Ewell, April-August 1864 (Box 5, Vol. 5) in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers for a discussion of Williamsburg during the War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the York County Heritage Trust:\n\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFolder 13416\u003c/emph\u003e: Letter from George Hay Kain to Isabel Small, September  11, 1950 and September 14, 1950; reply from Isabel Small to George Kain, September 12, 1957 (Information on McIlwaine family residence location in York and recollections of Gen. Jubal Early's visit to the family at request of Gen. Richard Ewell, Julia's brother-in-law). \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003e-On  microfilm\u003c/emph\u003e: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Republican \u003c/emph\u003enewspaper, April 17, 1839, marriage announcement of Benjamin S. Ewell to Julia Ann McIwaine, April 16, 1839; also bound\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Marriage Index to York Newspapers 1783-1850 \u003c/emph\u003eentry. -\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFolder 19684\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Jere Kere Carl Scrap Book\u003c/emph\u003e, Vol. 19, pg. 160, obituary of Mrs. Julia Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers in the Swem Library Special Collections' University Archives section (UA 2.06). See also a report (entitled 'diary') of B. S. Ewell, April-August 1864 (Box 5, Vol. 5) in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers for a discussion of Williamsburg during the War.","At the York County Heritage Trust:\nFolder 13416: Letter from George Hay Kain to Isabel Small, September  11, 1950 and September 14, 1950; reply from Isabel Small to George Kain, September 12, 1957 (Information on McIlwaine family residence location in York and recollections of Gen. Jubal Early's visit to the family at request of Gen. Richard Ewell, Julia's brother-in-law). -On  microfilm: The Republican newspaper, April 17, 1839, marriage announcement of Benjamin S. Ewell to Julia Ann McIwaine, April 16, 1839; also bound Marriage Index to York Newspapers 1783-1850 entry. -Folder 19684, The Jere Kere Carl Scrap Book, Vol. 19, pg. 160, obituary of Mrs. Julia Ewell."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is in reference to the Revolutionary War claim of the Stoddert family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters, one including a receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote: This letter includes a recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as a professor, signed by five professors at the United States Military Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discusses the death of Aunt Rebecca due to consumption.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe note discusses Aunt Rebecca's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Ewell brought her here with her mother. The army is at Liberty Hills. Campbell Brown joined them for the celebration. The General says the army may go on to Baltimore. \"The Cheryb\" in Richmond may have their leg amputated. General Long, Fitzhugh Lee, Col. Chambliss, Major Gresiand, and Mr. Smith are there. Brown writes of family news and boarding house arrangements. She sends congratulations on General Magruder's victory at Sabine Pass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown writes that Elizabeth's letter arrive with some grom General Ewell and Campbell. The army is moving soon. She had been at Stony Lonesome and the windows and fences are ruined. She relates news of the capture of nine Yankees by Captain Jones, General Gordon's aide-de-camp at Bristol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes more from Brandy Station and is going back to Charlottesville. She notes that General Ewell must get a new artificial leg. The officers' spirits are still high.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Harriot S. Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2. formerly William and Mary College Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA short unsigned letter. On same sheet: Thomas Ewell, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter includes two others: Lizinka Campbell to her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet) and Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (also on the same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter also includes a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter also contains a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship, Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. The recommendation is for Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter advises Colonel Ewell that his state of health makes him unable to serve in the field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrump writes that he needs the exact information on the burning of Richmond tobacco warehouses because of a lawsuit. He asks if General Ewell set the fires at General Lee's order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn invitation to the marriage reception of their daughter. Enclosures: Two cards, Emmy A. Crump and William B. Lightfoot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeas writes of Ewell's promotion to Colonel, 32nd Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. He asks that Ewell please report to Richmond Headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA certificate of dismission of Benjamin S. Ewell from Hampden Sidney Church and of recommendation to the church at Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains an extract from the Register of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe contents of this folder were previously housed in Box 1, folder 3, \"Letters, E\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell writes about life at West Point. He comments on current literature. He spent the last two years studying mathematics, which will never be of any service until he should become a teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell discusses family matters. The lack of funds keeps him from coming home for vacation. He worries over Congress's changes for West Point. He asks her to please make five more shirts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell discusses family matters. Exams are over. Life at West Point is confining. He will not go to Tennessee, but is grateful for the other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell thanks his uncle for his generosity, but doubts Mr. Ewell will let Richard come to him. Ewell will not stay in the Army. There is no chance to advance unless there is a war. He may go into Legal Studies, having ambition and political interest. However, lacking money, he may set other goals. The possibility of war with France might change the situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(This letter is likely dated as 1836. Lizinka was born in 1820 and she is mentioned as being age 16. Ewell was not at West Point, nor Rebecca at Bladensburgh, in 1838.) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin writes he has dispersed some pictures and kept only good ones. They discuss dyspepsia, a \"many headed monster\". The war with France has been averted. Lizinka enjoyed Washington too much for a girl so young. He was riding with a French lady when her horse bolted, which led to rumors of his elopment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes that he cannot reconcile two laws, referring to the raising of troops. He asks which is valid. The answer by S. Bassett French, aide de camp, dated February 26, 1862, on back of sheet, notes that Virginia law rather than Congress is binding. If 20 in a camp reenlist, he will fill in the rest of the numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote: Map of Richmond and vicinity on back of letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin discusses the people and land of east Tennessee, as well as the Lousiana Volunteers. He says the Confederates will win if not greatly outnumbered. Uncle Dick should come; he is needed by the Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell notes that he is glad Uncle Dick didn't come. The Yankees grow bolder, stealing horses. He hopes the Yankees will not be hard on Williamsburg in consequence of new attacks. He writes had Fort Magruder had been where it ought, Williamsburg could have been saved. It its destruction is truly important to success, Ewell would let it go down without a murmur.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes a letter of farewell to his family. Battle is imminent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes of the Battle at Big Black River near Vicksburg. 24,000 men against 75,000 and they were at a disadvantage being hemmed in by the river and a small bridge. He says losing Vicksburg was an unexcusable blunder. He notes that Tennessee regrets their secession. The Yankees are not gentlemen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for genealogy. Didn't know Lowndes Jackson had information. Sends $100. Lizzie hasn't returned to Prince Edward, but may settle near here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are indications this letter may have been written by Richard S. Ewell rather than Benjamin. \nLife as prisoner. Accused of burning Richmond, but mob did it.  No troops and citizens refused to form constabulary. Story of capture.  Louis should live in Europe, especially England. Lyzinka now in Nashville. If she meets General Hitchcock or Auger [?], ask Brown to be put with general officers. Get Ben to find his luggage and grandfather's sword. Though \"the performance of that wretch Booth\" will permit no indulgence for officers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of furniture gone. Thanks for offer of Stony Lonesome furniture, but no place to put it, and future uncertain. Silver left with the Gatts, also blankets and valuables originally left with Wallers. G, glad she hadn't come south.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for letter. Did not apply for pardon at suggestion of Gen. Patrick, U.S.A., not in service of Confederate Army at surrender. Took oath as soon as possible. Humbug. Always a rebel. Means of living now as a plucked chicken is to feathers, but no regrets. Johnston the one great military leader. Thanks Gantt for offer of help.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe and Lizzie will try to attend Harriot's wedding, but short of money.  Advice on marriage to Harriot, hold her tongue which often ridicules, especially as Major Turner is Catholic and she will convert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for glasses. Sorry not to see her in Baltimore.  What will become of the South?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyzinka's poor relations \"pecking\" one, lack of money. People still don't realize condition, or future. If Yankees don't buy land, people will starve. What sort of school is Richard considering?  If 200 young ladies, he will come; but 200 \"wild boys from the West\" will take consideration. Thinks he can find gun and will send it. Received check for $50 from Lyzinka for Lizzie, who will acknowledge it.  If Lyzinka will send $10,000 to rebuild College it would help, for double the amount she can endow a professorship. P.S. re (Waterson's?) editorship of Chattanooga Rebel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses small check.  Things are gloomy, but to be expected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft off stamp on last letter, may cost $50 penalty unless she can put one on. If one of them dies now, loss to survivors irreparable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer duty to get whole family into Purgatory- and out. Thanks for pamphlet from the Priest. Liking for Catholic Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived 2 letters from Becca in Georgetown.  Cousin Francis must be getting better. Fine gentleman and great Christian.  Becca has probably gone to Stony Lonesome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmount to be paid by Richard, like Vicar of Wakefield to get rid of poor relations, but bid higher. Richard's health might be better if he led more active life. See a good doctor. Perhaps go to Europe till political crisis is over. Charges of treason are nonsense. If Negroes restored to former position, love and good will will return. People in Williamsburg not working to support themselves, need Yankees here [near?] for industry. Send notes of campaigns. Lee was not a great leader! Wants data to support this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not go to Hampton-Sydney, but would like to go to a small farm to while away time.  Washington College at the moment carries the day- but not for long; if Lee tried, college will be political, Bessie well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad a book belonging to Georgetown Convent which was carried off with rest of his books, so he is in Convent's debt. Family matters in Tennessee.  Sends $70, please acknowledge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell feels badly over loss of management of farm. Customs of Dutch and English on patrimony. If possible, divide this land now [?] between Harriot and Campbell, keeping a part to live on. Lyzinka can help Dick buy a farm.  Ben Weems has arrived, a sound fellow, but gauche.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn hand bill advertising the College. Richard didn't stay long enough at springs to benefit.  Story of 2 soldiers in Arizona, hell proves to be hotter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures, three clippings of Ewell's letters to the editor of New York Times. 1 clipping titled A Southern College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: Letter from Beverly S. Scott, Jr., at Prince Edward Court House, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 5 September 1867. Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Beverly S. Scott. 9 September 1867\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing letter from Charles McCulloch to Benjamin S. Ewell. 3 October 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes that Judge Crump needs the exact statement on General Ewell's orders to burn the tobacco warehouses. Was the order not made twice by General Lee, \"ill judged, harsh, and unnecessary.\" The general's reputation is at stake. Ewell asks how the Scotchmen are working out and would he please come for a month's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"\"The South and Grant\", from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, 20 May 1872\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: Two designs for a cemetery monument.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: A letter from J. H. Richards, at Georgetown College, West Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C. 29 April 1892.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes of Paul's severe illness. If he dies, she deems it God's will and they should not mourn too much. Paul dies on March 26th. The burial will be in Centreville. This is more reason than ever for Ben to take care of his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRebecca Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.) Elizabeth S. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes that Richard may bring Liz down from Washington to Brookgrove. She mentions his attempts to get an appointment. Richard saved them all from a mad dog. She goes on to discuss family matters and neighbors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth asks why Benjamin has not written or come. She wanted the pleasure of making his clothes. Tom left for Buckland, Tennessee alone. He has grown so much he was taken for Richard. Richard does well at West Point, but will probably not win Lizinka.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth sends family news. Richard does well at West Point. Tom arrived in Nashville. Tasker is joining a law office in Marlboro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript signed: R. L. E.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter includes a check drawn by Elizabeth Ewell payable to Benjamin S. Ewell dated September 18, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth asks Benjamin about his married life and their new home. She tells him to look after William most carefully, buy him a bed and enough bedding. Ben's horse is well looked after. Mrs. Smith is most unwell after her daughter's death from a malignant fever. She cannot visit him because of lack of money, but such a visit would be good for Liz.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by A. Gantt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth sends family news. Ben Gantt is in Norfolk for three months while the Delaware is refitted. She requests that Ben ask him to visit. The Temperance Movement is growing. Richard will lose out of his United States Bank notes since the bank failed. She includes Lord Byron's view of Catholicism. Richard is at the garrison in Arkansas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes that Becca will come if really needed, but the trip is too expensive for pleasure, nor can Elizabeth afford to visit herself. Mr. Fowler's failure caused a loss of $20,000 by Mrs. Pront, his sister. Family members may also have money with him. She mentions that Liz is giving out a Miraculous Medal and is too wrapped up in the Catholic Church. Friends send gifts of fruit tree and garden supplies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by R. L. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth reports news that Levi was killed in the Mexican War. His mother is heartbroken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Elizabeth) to her daughter, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters.\nThe first letter is undated: Becca carried home by mistake Ben's letter to E. William escorted Becca home, after preaching twice. Richard's letter of 12/31/51, he is leaving Fort Defiance. Liz to teach Mrs. Hunter's children. Aunt Becca will visit E. in spring. Many deaths at the Johnsons. Regrets new carriage. Love to Julia and Liz. Tenants' rents in arrears, accounts confused. Grandfather Stoddert's war payments being looked into by Mr. Lowndes.  Tasker has sent draft for $114. \nThe second letter on the same sheet is dated March 4, 1852: Glad Ben will come for her, can also go to Jackson to see Aunts, Tom, etc.  Convention being held at Methodist Church. Judge Tucker most important at Convention. Harriet Stoddert graduates soon, may come to Jackson with E. and B.  2p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth S. Ewell, to her father, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHattie Turner to her cousin, William Stoddert. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. L. Prout to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizzie visiting Mrs. Vest. John Petit recently married. Seeming \"ghostly noises\" at President's House, Lizzie's health improved.  E's current reading. Ben building a house at the farm.  He would not have bought so much land, but thought Richard would join him in the purchase, \"the property\" (Stony Lonesome) was fairly purchased by E's husband.  Marstellars [?] tried to get some of W's money from his agent, but failed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived much mail. Liz had bad fall on way to a pupil, is to be regular organist at her church. Harriet sent copies of commendation letters for Richard's application as Paymaster from Gen. Scott etc.  Cannot establish her relationship to the Craigheads, but Campbells and Browns related to them. William has too many jobs, as postmaster are his letters mailed free?  Did he receive music Sally Edloe [?] sent?  Lizzy very popular. Deaths and illnesses in neighborhood.  Governor wants to reorganize the College, Ben can get professorship elsewhere if necessary. Aunt Stoddert wants him to come to Oxford University, Mississippi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Wilmer preached today. His baby son died recently of cholera.  Commencement party. Mr. Miner's fatal bath. Excited meeting of the College Board.  Gov. Wise wanted to make all State colleges subsidiary to U.Va., but was defeated, but Law School abolished to everyone's regret. Ben resigned the Presidency, will take Chair of Mathematics.  Changes in faculty. Ben wanted William at the College as assistant in Languages and Chaplain, but turned down by Mr. Smead, the Professor of Language. Governor Wise wants to move College to Accomac for sea air.  Liz borrowed money from Ben and has not repaid it, please take it from her money for land. Becca sent ill-tempered letter from Washington.  Lyzinka wants E. to join her in Tennessee, but trip too expensive.  E's fondness for one student.  Letter from Liz, Campbell Brown graduated with high honors, Mr. Beale's board money stolen.\n14 September, 1858, 4p.: Ben resigned Presidency, not his professorship.  If he leaves President's House, the farm house near completion, on 500 acres.  E. does not want to make W's improvements at Stony Lonesome, and Ben needs the money, on which W. could pay taxes.  Mrs. Lowndes died last week to cancer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends $25, get receipt. Powells tried to charge E. twice for furniture, but receipt proved her right. Lizzie goes to York soon. Mr. Stringfellow stopped on way to Gloucester. Please send stationary, black gloves, silk for aprons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters. One mutilated.\nLizzy's over her illness, only a sore throat, but Julia has a cold.  Richard sent 2 articles from New Orleans, about soldiers on parade.  House guests there, Julia gets papers from York, but no letter. Complains about everyone. Tom will send $300, but where? Tom at Jackson on Oct. 2, had some trouble with his men.  Dr. Maxley [?] dined there, will take Julia riding today… Explained diagram of Monterey to Lizzy.\nWilliam came home last night. Heavy rains, W. much shaken by Tom's death.  Julia received political paper. Hopes Lizzy is well. Found the handkerchief L. was hemming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters, both addressed to Cadet B.S. Ewell, Military Academy  at West Point.  \nLetter dated April 17: Paul's death. Aunt Harriet wants Ben to study law in Tennessee. Tom dislikes math. Dick is lazy. Why has Ben's standing gone down in natural philosophy? Must work harder.\nLetter dated April 29: Low much will it cost for Ben to come home?  Paul's death hastened by saving travel money and walking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard not being kept from school by Elizabeth, but of his own accord.  Tom studying Vergil. Liz staying at Brookgrove until Ben can bring her home. Aunt Rebecca has been visiting for 2 or 3 weeks, Aunt Campbell wants to leave Philadelphia, but Lyzinka's progress on harp prevents her, Mrs. Rutledge bringing her 2 daughters to the Point, Becca's health bad, Liz offered $350 to teach in Bladensburg, but declined.  Copy of letter to Mr. Taliaferro [?] about her son's application to the Point.  \nRichard (Thursday) has been enjoying school all week.  \nRichard's postscript. Local News.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen too slow in answering letters, paying too much postage, many government men turned out of office. Her memories of bad management in Washington. Sally Lee (Cockerille?) now boarding with Elizabeth at $82 [?] a year. Debating society being spoiled by certain members. Pinched for money. Elizabeth has 13 students.  \nRebecca corrects her mother's misinformation.  Becca is principal teacher, but unpaid.\nRebecca Ewell to Benjamin Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. \nFebruary 26: Elizabeth's illness, Greenville schoolboys unruly. Liz going to Georgetown. Quotation from Adam's papers.  Tom's poem on Mexican War.\nAugust 2: Mr. Slaughter (minister) now preaching, Aunt Nancy's illness. Ben a lady's man, in love with all 5 Berkley daughters. Tasker, also in love. Making slip covers, Tom reading Sallust.  \nPostscript to Ben: E. has paid part due gales + seaton, don't overpay them. The Tyler's kindness. Trip to Springs would help Aunt Nancy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. \nThe first letter discusses nNews of farm. Tom studying Caesar, soon on Virgil, Mr. Meeder his tutor. Current books. News of neighbors.  Liz may stay with Aunt Nancy, as long as she pleases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth S. Ewell to her sister, Rebecca L. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo items. The letter care of Mr. Kingman: Why didn't R. arrive when she said?  Mrs. Kingman welcome to visit. Tom back from Nashville. Ben has moved to Dr. Gardiner's. News of neighbors.\nThe second letter is care of Mr. Prout, May 5: Aunt C. and Lyzinka coming in July.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew clothes being made or purchased. Visits to neighbors, going with Aunt Nancy to see about money owed by government to Benjamin Stoddert Estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to have Becca leave, did Richard then go directly to Baltimore?  Visitors. William enjoying Hampden Sydney. Negroes there restless.  Carriage being mended. Becca must collect rent, as bills are due.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn unsigned letter to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe musical score of a cotillion and a postscript by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell, appear on the same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes of Virginia's death. Her mother is ill with dysentary ever since. She tells Benjamin he can come home if he wants. She discusses Virginia's funeral.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen's letter unsatisfactory. Miss Bankhead's and Dad's wedding. Horses at farm not too satisfactory, but carriage too expensive.  Gen. Scott's defense from Court Martial. Letter from Uncle William, he will take care of Tom's education. Aunt C. wants Tom to stay in Nashville, where Lyzinka teaches him French. Elizabeth hopes he is now settled in Jackson, Nashville is too luxurious. New Minister has come, stayed one night at Ewell's, wants to board there, girls going to several weddings and parties. Postscript by Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes that returning from her ride, she found Rosanna and Fanney Ewell waiting for her. She discusses General Van Ness and Major Minor's unexpected and untimely visit, noting Van Ness's bragging and the Major's amiability. The General invited her mother to live at his house in Washington. A dog was hung for stealing sheep. The post office moved from Greenwich.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Elizabeth S.) to Rebecca L. Ewell, at Bladensburgh, Prince George's County, Maryland. Postmarked Buckland. 21 May 1838. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is directed to Mrs. Ann Gantt, at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is readdressed to Professor Ewell, Prince Edward County, Virginia, with a postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes that vVery important information about Jesse Ewell's papers was found in Manassas, with G. Washington's survey of his land, etc. Letters from Thomas Ewell to Jesse were found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoddert genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes of Bessie Scott's visit and complications of the family estates. The college had Centenniel. She sends him a journal of it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth S. Ewell sends a letter of sympathy on Benjamin's death. She remarks on Lizzie's constant gentleness and is sorry Ben did not write Richard's life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters. One is written in July from Georgetown. The other was written Noevmber 14 from Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn invitation to the marriage ceremony of their daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: Post card from Susan Hutchison, at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, to Jesse Ewell, at Ruckersville, Virginia, 8 January 1913. Postmarked 1914.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Jesse Ewell, Jr. announces the birth of his son Jesse, the sixth Ewell in line of the name and one of three now living. Part of his father's family still lives in Prince William. Grandfather is 84 years old and his wife, 86. Jesse hopes Benjamin will come to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse recounts Revolutionary War memories of his grandfather Ewell and Charles Ewell's friendship with Jefferson from college days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains corrections and additions to the Ewell genealogy, going back to the first immigrants and through the Revolutionary War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizinks writes to Ben, requesting him to visit so her engagement can be announced in Tennessee. Her marriage to Captain Scott will also be there, at Richard's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizinka sends her condolences on Becca's death. She asks if Ben would come to Tennessee for her wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul writes of Aunt Nancy's severe illness and his own. He says Mother will send money if Ben needs it to come home. He shares news of friends. It is very cold, snow six to eight feet deep, and many cattle and sheep have died. Aunt Nancy may go to Tennessee for her health. If by carriage, then Paul will drive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by Elizabeth S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by A. Gantt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: manuscript copy of an account of T. Ewell with his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriot Campbell, at Nashville, Tennessee, to Betsy Ewell. 1 July 1838. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizinka Campbell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriot Campbell to her sister, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Ewell to Harriet Stoddert. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour undated letters, May 28, October 22, November [?], and September 17.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to a tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional messages from Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell and from A. Gantt to Benjamin S. Ewell are on this same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is a request, by order of General Lee, that Ben organize a battalion for the defence of the neck of land between the James and York, as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, with resolutions of the board thanking Benjamin S. Ewell for his services as an instructor and officer of the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, to Benjamin S. Ewell, notifying him of his election to the chair of mathematics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from James L. Kemper, Governor of Virginia, at Richmond, to Harry Heth is on this same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn invitation to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1877.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for E's kindness to J. in hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWitty letter that Jenkins needs a wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemories of early days of the War relived at Edisto[?]., present work on plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorrow at devastation of War.  S. depressed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Tucker's death.  Plans for new instructors at College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming very bad in Texas. W, would J. do better on farm in Tidewater and be able to send his sons to school?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotification of Ewell's appointment to faculty of T.U. as Professor of Math at @$1200/p.a.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to a soiree dansante to be given in honor of General Joseph E. Johnston. Enclosure: card of admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohnston will visit Ewell soon in Williamsburg.  Is looking for a suitable line of business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciates E's offer to give E's place [President of College] to J., who cannot accept. J. asked to accept presidency of Express Company being formed. J. may visit Williamsburg in 4 or 5 weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad the faculty interested in Mr. Mitchell.  Glad E. thought of defense of Mr. Barbour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for the fine map.  Returns surplus College seals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIf E. remembers Henry Watterson, whose letter is enclosed, would he write letter of recommendation?  J's nephew Robert Hughes is a student at William and Mary. J. regrets he could not visit Williamsburg, will try again soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for J.'s travel to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould E. \"lop off\" and correct J's latest (enclosed) literary effort?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes their friendship will continue. \"The young lady\" has two suitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks to the Colonel for the photograph.  News of death of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as Professor of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLamb will send Mrs. Scott a copy of his address about Benjamin S. Ewell which is being printed for the alumni.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. will support E. + W. in election race of B.T. Crump for city judge of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAndy Campbell's possible move to Coastal Survey Depart., where Bache would like to place a man like Ewell.  Gantt worried about cholera in St. Louis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReasons Richard Ewell was passed over for higher rank in Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLewis will be happy to have Rebecca travel with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Ewell for information concerning Battle of Vicksburg.  Will use it judiciously in writing about the War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for condolences on death of Lowndes' sister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChild's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. will give R. grape and current cuttings.  Some of the Jefferson relations including Fanny Manning have been staying with Patsy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. thanks E. for genealogical information on Lowndes and Tasker families.  L. would like to buy some of the plate left to E. by Cousin Frank, if she must sell it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.  From one of the daughters of Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSadness in the family. Elizabeth's visit to York, Aunt Sarah will treat her kindly. [Note on letter says \"written shortly after the War.\" McIlwain was Mrs. Julia Ewell's brother.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. hopes his daughter Julia [Mrs. Benjamin Ewell] will become more accustomed to Virginia ways, and more sedate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry Julia is so discontented with life in the country.  Mc. looking for German farmer for Ewell farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProud of Ben's new post  Suspended Pa. specie payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious revival in York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpecting Ben and Julia to visit York within the month.  Baltimore and Susquehanna [?] Railroad just opened to York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit of Church still not settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. has placed order for Ben's carriage.  Upcoming election of Harrison and Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. unable to visit Ewells at this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes William [McIlwain, his son] will be taught by Rev. Balentine until College begins next term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet:  Wm. McIlwain to his daughter, Julia McIlwain Ewell.\nMc. family worried E's not writing. Mc's sending \"Republican\" to Julia for news of home.  Deaths of York friends.\nTo Julia: Rules of behavior.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyphoid prevailing. York economy depressed, needs congressional Tarriff Bille to cure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes Julia can visit York.  More about Tariff Bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that Julia and baby have gone back to Virginia.  Julia left some clothes, now should Mc's' send them?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. involved in land suit. Either Ann or Sarah [his daughters] might visit Ewells next summer.  York growing fast.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam McIlvain, Julia's brother, has at last arrived and is helping Me. in this (?) doctor's office. Scarlet Fever epidemic seems over. Crops in York very good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of McIlvain's brother. Land suit has gone to Supreme Court, settled in Mc's favor.  Polk's election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet: Wm. McIlvain to Julia Ewell. Grandfather's advice on how to live and die. Aunt Julia's son died.\nTo Julia: glad she is reconciled to \"conjugal peace.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad she might visit York.  Her mother, Julia McIwain Ewell, had been visiting at Oxford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas Ewell unjustly accused McIlvain of mistreating Julia in his letters?  Julia has displayed bad temper which should be curbed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Thanks for Ewell's letter.\nThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Magruder needs Ewell to send all wagons and drivers from Williamsburg area and send them to Magruder at once.  Needs them to provision the forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet.  Mahan, D.H., West Point, N.Y., to Benjamin S. Ewell, Lexington, Va. \nTazewell: Letter of recommendation of Ewell as Professor of Mathematics at William and Mary.\nEwell: - Offer of aid in getting William and Mary position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuotation from Mr. Tazewell's letter about Ewell's interest in post at William and Mary.  Suggests Ewell come to Richmond to talk to Dr. Lyons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of engineering of Dam for James River Improvement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell's abilities as professor of mathematics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure:  a letter from C.F. Mercer, Washington, to Dr. Thomas Ewell, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va. 1826 May 29.\nSorrow at Dr. Ewell's death, enclosing letter to him anyway.  Offer to help Ewell's sons.\nEnclosure:  Will try to place Ewell's son at West Point, but places filled for current year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of York, election news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe books Ewell sent have arrived and will be given to the subscribers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted circular letter requesting aid for the family of John Hampden Pleasants who was killed in a duel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonroe will go to Tennessee to run Richard Ewell's farm] if wages can be settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonroe and his sister will go to Tennessee to work for Richard Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommittee of Senior Class presents parting gift to Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eM. sends gift \"from nature.\"  Kate Custis has arrived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiss Copland, M's teacher, described news of Williamsburg's young ladies.  Toured College with Mr. Ewell, who showed her \"new philosophical apparatus.\"  M. will begin Hebrew and Sanskrit next winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends, amateur dramatics sorrow that Richmond is no longer happy as during the War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eM.'s sister carrying on flirtation in Richmond. Latest dress styles.  Is E. to marry Mr. Snead? News of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. \n1862 March 27: Encloses letter for Elizabeth to give to cousin Hubbard. Staying at Sarah Rutherford's house on Grace Street. The young men of Richmond.\n1862 April: M's will remain in Richmond until after the battle. Description of her gentlemen callers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. sorry E. could not join them.  Yankees came to Fork Church recently.  Railroad cut off between Hanover and Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorrow at General Richard Ewell's injury. Group of Williamsburg men, including Ben Ewell, ] started for Williamsburg from Richmond under flag of truce but were sent back to Richmond. Sorrow at burning of College (Wm. and M.) and churches. Dr. Garnett has died, great friend of Elizabeth's, Bland Taliaferro and Colemans are staying in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter to be forwarded to Page and Annie Wilmer in Danville. Williamsburg now has church, telegraph, tri-weekly boat and daily mail! Town full of yankees, but few interesting Confederate soldiers.  News of noted townspeople.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends in Army. Gossip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. M. send $3.00 for 12 yards of suitable dress material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter giving his opinion of Benjamin S. Ewell as an instructor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to E. to attend Washington and Lee University graduation in June, to stay with Nelsons.  Senator Mills and Hon. John Goode to be speakers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeachy sends Ewell's deed and notes to be signed and notarized.  Mrs. Scott [E's daughter Elizabeth] leaving for St. Louis to stay two or three weeks. Suggests changing name of \"Stony Lonesome\" to something more cheerful.  Dr. Coleman dead of cancer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas prepared a series of math text books; will have his publishers send copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letterbook copies of seven letters describe dDescribes troop movements around Vicksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses troop movements and progress of the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs glad they are friends; visited New Orleans and other places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the scandal at West Point; lists army transfers; went to a \"fish frolic\"; saw a phrenologist; is sobering up the troops with punishment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter dated simply March 24. Has a whist club; hopes to be able to pay him $50 soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks if she will stay in the house; asks if anything has been done about the administration; asks if anything has been done about the Virginia Estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him of the death of cousin Nannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a poem; hopes the College is doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs visiting her aunts and other friends, family, a. And servants have been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived a letter from Vera Cruz written after the battle;, recounts the description of the battle where Levi was killed; wants Richard to come home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived a letter from Ben which she quotes about Mexico and Levi's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs enjoying her visit; family news; is going to D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to meet Aunt Ewell at Buckland; Lizzie is very comfortable in the convent; asks her to send music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks farmers from New Jersey will emigrate to Virginia but are worried about malarial fevers; has a ditch making machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a description of Toddsberry (sic) in Gloucester County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends copy of order electing him professor of military science.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived safely; has warned Miss Rebecca that her hair is ½ inch long; the orchestra was invited to the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells her she will not become fossilized now that she is married; went calling New Years Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his kind letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends copy of Harrison Genealogy; Clarence W. Borden may try to correspond with him about Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Mr. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs restoring \"Belle Air\" and asks about its history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for information; asks for more information of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for information; asks for more information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes teaching; brother is going to North Carolina; neighborhood news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisited the Munfords; family gossip; recipe for green tomatoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs in love with Mr. Rives; family news; people in Williamsburg are not very frightened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisited Mrs. Gilmer; advises her not to see Mary C. who is a disgrace; wants to drive the Yankees away; is afraid she will not be able to go back to her house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpects to leave the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses her and Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her recent marriage; will miss her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas inquired into laws on pay for soldiers of Mexican War, but does not feel she has a claim.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy she is better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill send her trunk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnjoyed her letter; kKnows that they can be happy in spite of poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel is better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a theater party; saw Keene as Richard; describes how she wants her dress made.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill go on day duty tomorrow; has much surgical work; is going to a costume party dressed as a black person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists her classes; had her first experience in the clinic; is in a gynecological ward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSaw the fire; is on night duty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs surprised that Yankees eat cornmeal; they talk about the war very much.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on Miss Boyson's prize essay on Robert E. Lee; calls for an end to sectional prejudice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived the box and money; Dr.Carter knows her family; describes her work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad Mary is better; wants family to visit; will send a prescription.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not named the baby yet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on marriage; is happy; is not fond of Page anymore; baby will be baptized Elizabeth Lowndes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about old family letters; has gone to town; family has been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to visit; think she has had a miscarriage; doesn't want any more children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollege will be opened next session; railroad will be finished by October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been going through her father's papers and has destroyed most of them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not want her daughter to be a nurse; did not like her fiance; would have become a sister of charity if her father had not survived the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had only one servant; Bessie is doing well with nursing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for gifts; received a letter from Ewell in which he speaks of war in the Philippines; his house was burned by rebels; Bessie is working at Bellevue; does not like doing housework.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather is well; Ewell is working in Hampton; Benjamin will be going to college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather has been sick; Beverly has been sick; Ewell has an engineering job in Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses notes about the Bladen family; Page Saunders is visiting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather is well; Bessie is keeping house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Grigsby has been visiting; Beverly is at the Farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letter; Bessie has arrived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the letter; visited Virginia Beach and Takoma.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about Hattie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad she will visit; family news; discusses Tom's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom may not be dead; Ben and William visited.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Statement concerning Benjamin Ewell by Thomas H. Williamson on same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard rumors that he has resigned; is glad he resigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him of a job at Hampden Sidney; has been offered a job at VMI.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been carrying Madison for years; has employed Dr. John Graham as surgeon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to write; will travel to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped transcription. Original letter is located in the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of his photograph. (The author is Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to become a member of the society. (The author is Henry V. Goold of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to publish General Ewell's report of Gettysburg, but it has already been published; will be publishing a series of papers on Gettysburg. The author is J. William Jones of the Southern Historical Society.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the family; tells her to take anything of his that she needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Caruthers [?] received the power of attourney; decribes the local girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Caruthens [?]) has received the amount; family news; has had an earthquake; Uncle Henry's negroes were sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy has been sick; comments on death of Ann's mother; Rrebecca is going to Washington; Mary Jane is doing well in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had a headache attack; asks her to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoddert family genealogy information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been visiting Harriott; is thinking about courting a young lady.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas inquired about getting a West Point appointment for Richard; hopes he will leave the army and be a lawyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill find success in the cities; advice for success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom has arrived and he will take care of him; wants to buy Negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGot her abusive letter; has unsuccessfully tried preaching. The letter is postmarked Prince Edward Court House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard was visiting and has been sick; mother and Becca and Emma [?] are being disagreeable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been preaching; Dr. Tyler died; Mrs. Ewell disappeared and they feared she had run off with her beau.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother has left; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay be able to lend money; does not want mother to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends money; mother is going to Giles County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for care of home; thinks Richard will stay in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to repair the porch; sends directions for care of home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received few letters; murderer has taken to Taos where he confessed; describes San Juan Day celebration; Kit Carson traveled with him to the Indian settlement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells her she writes unpleasant letters; will sent money; directions for care of home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't bear to be parted from his mother;  –feels her death deeply.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs leaving New Mexico for home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs very appreciative; is planning to rent a small house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been sick; visited the seminary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises her on marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises her not to go to Williamsburg in the summer; has some pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter on Becca's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYankees stole almost everything from Mrs. Jones; is teaching; is caring for four widows.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs living at the same place; is teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letter relates that he went to Spring Hill where Richard was sick; Richard and Lizinka died.\nThe second letter is from : Elizabeth S. Ewell to Anne. Sends the copy of W.S.'s letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes death of Richard and Lizinka.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses wills of Richard and Lizinka.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell has money for the monument; discusses inscriptions on the monument.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw limits the pensions to the immediate family; discusses religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived the coffee pot, but does not drink coffee; believes the Texas matter is settled; enjoys where he is living; the people treat their horses badly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizzie is having trouble with Ewell; –describes his bad behavior; is going to a dinner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs having trouble breathing; has made a new will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been busy with church activities; his cook is getting better; is taking Belladonna.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not have any pain last night; does not feel he should be alone, is well fixed where he is.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks it would be better for Ewell to go away to school; has been working hard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his day at college; describes a family quarrel; wrote a good speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. Has been working very hard. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the order appointing Benjamin S. Ewell to the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for his conduct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the paper on coal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Postscript by Robertt. Weir.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to help him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for information on Colonel Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on training of civil engineers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas opening for civil engineers. [Trimble was chief Engineer of Baltimore and Susquehanna RRr. at this time].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSympathy letter on death of her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel. Ewell is sick in Macon [?]; General Ewell is sick; war news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer father, General Richard Ewell, and mother have died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaments death of her parents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks Hattie is her most attractive child; thinks Lily is peculiar; has been happy in Williamsburg; Col. Ewell has been sick.\nAlso:  Brown, Campbell, to B.S. Ewell. Encloses the above letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a photograph; children are sick; has not named her baby yet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. The first relays the news that the General has died; the children are well. The second letter is from October 1, no year. ,Has been in Canada; has found mention of cousin Ben and the General in Appleton's biographical dictionary; St. Louis fair is in progress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. The first letter relays the news that Lizinka is in Madeira; Lily was invited to break fast with the king of Portugal.\nThe second letter, circa January 24, 1872, informs the receipient that Mother died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. The first letter congratulates her on her marriage to Mr. Scott; advises her on how to handle a husband. The second letter, undated, relates that the author has been reading various novels; does not like George Eliot; describes her children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are windows in church for her mother and father. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"Lizzie\". Congratulates her on her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a type of earth called \"bermuda tripoli.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for B.S. Ewell to serve as Secretary of the Interior.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis article will be appearing; invites B.S.E. to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the gift.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for a description of Upshur's [?]) father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter from C. Gallup asking about B.S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is from William H. Zinsser, New York. He suggests a town patrol to help combat lack of morale at Fort Eustis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes he will keep teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of election to membership in the Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUncle Newton got married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his trip through the Carolinas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sending pigs to Mrs. Scott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming suggestions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: Three sheets of data on farming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecalls the war; asks for a picture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs planning to go to Mississippi; has visited Annapolis; Uncle William is no longer practicing law, but is engaged in speculation; the ball was a failure due to the local clergy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn incomplete letter concerning a professorship at Transylvania University. Asks him to write; offers him a job at Lexington; describes the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes problems with workers and the College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes a month at headquarters will improve her health; the Howe [?]) boy has been killed; has received tea from England. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed \"To Lizzie\". Has been sewing; social news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates war news. The letter is from \"Cousin\" in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad she has not left Richmond; relates war news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Sarah\" [McIlvainez?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather says the College will stay in Williamsburg; drunken soldiers almost grabbed her arm; social news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the photograph; has had visitors; father has John Brown in ambrotype. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. The letter is signed \"Mamie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived her letter; family news; had her photograph taken. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBessie left for Norfolk. The letter is signed by \"Mama\". [This is not from Julia Ewell. Probably from a member of the Hoge (?) family.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been sick; has a new book; family news; Negroes are going to have a celebration; her dog was lost. The letter is signed \"Maymay\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses Richmond; social news. The letter is signed: \"Bee\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent her bundle to mother; Hattie sent a pickle knife and fork; wishes she would not get married; family news. Enclosure: A pencil drawing entitled \"Mary's new walking dress.\" The letter is signed \"Mamie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is signed: \"Charlotte\". The author comments on her marriage; has been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter signed: \"Aunt Lizzie\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Both letters may have been authored by Harriet Brown Turner. \n[1865?] May 7 Letter: Uncle is a prisoner; Captain Turner is taking the Oath of Allegiance; mother was arrested; war news. \n[1865?] May 24 Letter: Mother is still under arrest; Captain Turner has arrived; family news; war news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items. Unsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen has been sick and died. Signed: \"Matilda\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a draft for $69; has sold or hidden goods to keep them from Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTried to cross Confederate lines; suggests that Richard Ewell [?] leave for Bermuda where money will be provided.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter may be addressed to Thomas Ewell. Incomplete. The author urges him to go on with his research.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been visiting Bettie; had a bad time at Mrs. Temple's; may marry Mr. Temple.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill use the money Ccousin William sent; Hattie Turner visited.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter may be authored by Richard Ewell Scott. The author describes his hotel and the soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes papers from various sources\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a rough draft of an address made before the city council of Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Benjamin S. Ewell,  for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSEE OVERSIZE FILE\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned John Letcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned John Letcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned James A. Sedden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUSMA Reunion booklet that includes Necrology with published version of \"Benjamin S. Ewell: A Tribute by E.J. Harvie.\" Pages 11-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single document: dDeed given by Elizabeth Ewell, widow of Thomas Ewell, et al., of Prince William County, to Alexander Spotswood Grigsby, covering two lots in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single document: dDraft of deed granting to Benjamin S. Ewell and William Stoddert her interest in a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA memorandum book of which only 19 pages of the 336 pages were written upon. The book contains data on the Ewell family, including several extracts of letters dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn greement of Elizabeth S. Ewell, R. S. Ewell, William Stoddert, and Benjamin S. Ewell to carry into effect the will of Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, that was declared invalid by the court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. The article concerns Richard S. Ewell's part in the second capture of Winchester, with a note by H. S. Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a note by Campbell Brown dated November 6, 1873.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA poem written by Dr. H. M. Clarkson for the Ewell centennial celebration held at Manassas, Virginia, by the Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia, surveyed for Dr. Thomas Ewell, 1821\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApothecary's scales used by Dr. Thomas Ewell, surgeon, in the War of 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a notice in the National Intelligencer announcing the death of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single letter. The writer notes that this is an extract from a letter written by President James Madison, at Montpelier, to Mr.Edward Coles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside. Printed circular letter advertising as a summer resort, Belle-Air in Prince William County, Virginia, the old home of the Ewell family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. An essay on Williamsburg by Elizabeth L. Scott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains 58 items. There are papers in English, Spanish, and Japanese, including a Japanese pencil sketch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Marquess, W.H., Mexico, Missouri, to W. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertified copy. Requesting the governor to procure exemption from military duty for employees of Eubanks and Co.,  \u0026amp; Co., cotton and wool carders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains genealogical information, including some from the Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31\" x 36\" Plat of Ewell property showing \"Old line Bowden, Ewell.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, which is signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries.  A few loose notes about births and deaths.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries. A few loose notes about births and deaths.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. 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contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","The letter is in reference to the Revolutionary War claim of the Stoddert family.","Two letters, one including a receipt.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Note: This letter includes a recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as a professor, signed by five professors at the United States Military Academy.","The letters discusses the death of Aunt Rebecca due to consumption.","The note discusses Aunt Rebecca's death.","General Ewell brought her here with her mother. The army is at Liberty Hills. Campbell Brown joined them for the celebration. The General says the army may go on to Baltimore. \"The Cheryb\" in Richmond may have their leg amputated. General Long, Fitzhugh Lee, Col. Chambliss, Major Gresiand, and Mr. Smith are there. Brown writes of family news and boarding house arrangements. She sends congratulations on General Magruder's victory at Sabine Pass.","Brown writes that Elizabeth's letter arrive with some grom General Ewell and Campbell. The army is moving soon. She had been at Stony Lonesome and the windows and fences are ruined. She relates news of the capture of nine Yankees by Captain Jones, General Gordon's aide-de-camp at Bristol.","She writes more from Brandy Station and is going back to Charlottesville. She notes that General Ewell must get a new artificial leg. The officers' spirits are still high.","See also Harriot S. Turner.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2. formerly William and Mary College Papers.","A short unsigned letter. On same sheet: Thomas Ewell, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","This letter includes two others: Lizinka Campbell to her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet) and Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (also on the same sheet.)","This letter also includes a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","This letter also contains a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship, Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. The recommendation is for Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","The letter advises Colonel Ewell that his state of health makes him unable to serve in the field.","2 copies.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers.","Crump writes that he needs the exact information on the burning of Richmond tobacco warehouses because of a lawsuit. He asks if General Ewell set the fires at General Lee's order.","An invitation to the marriage reception of their daughter. Enclosures: Two cards, Emmy A. Crump and William B. Lightfoot.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Deas writes of Ewell's promotion to Colonel, 32nd Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. He asks that Ewell please report to Richmond Headquarters.","A certificate of dismission of Benjamin S. Ewell from Hampden Sidney Church and of recommendation to the church at Lexington, Virginia.","On same sheet.","This letter contains an extract from the Register of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1850.","The contents of this folder were previously housed in Box 1, folder 3, \"Letters, E\".","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Benjamin Ewell writes about life at West Point. He comments on current literature. He spent the last two years studying mathematics, which will never be of any service until he should become a teacher.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. The lack of funds keeps him from coming home for vacation. He worries over Congress's changes for West Point. He asks her to please make five more shirts.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. Exams are over. Life at West Point is confining. He will not go to Tennessee, but is grateful for the other.","Benjamin Ewell thanks his uncle for his generosity, but doubts Mr. Ewell will let Richard come to him. Ewell will not stay in the Army. There is no chance to advance unless there is a war. He may go into Legal Studies, having ambition and political interest. However, lacking money, he may set other goals. The possibility of war with France might change the situation.","(This letter is likely dated as 1836. Lizinka was born in 1820 and she is mentioned as being age 16. Ewell was not at West Point, nor Rebecca at Bladensburgh, in 1838.)","Benjamin writes he has dispersed some pictures and kept only good ones. They discuss dyspepsia, a \"many headed monster\". The war with France has been averted. Lizinka enjoyed Washington too much for a girl so young. He was riding with a French lady when her horse bolted, which led to rumors of his elopment.","Ewell writes that he cannot reconcile two laws, referring to the raising of troops. He asks which is valid. The answer by S. Bassett French, aide de camp, dated February 26, 1862, on back of sheet, notes that Virginia law rather than Congress is binding. If 20 in a camp reenlist, he will fill in the rest of the numbers.","Note: Map of Richmond and vicinity on back of letter.","Benjamin discusses the people and land of east Tennessee, as well as the Lousiana Volunteers. He says the Confederates will win if not greatly outnumbered. Uncle Dick should come; he is needed by the Army.","Ewell notes that he is glad Uncle Dick didn't come. The Yankees grow bolder, stealing horses. He hopes the Yankees will not be hard on Williamsburg in consequence of new attacks. He writes had Fort Magruder had been where it ought, Williamsburg could have been saved. It its destruction is truly important to success, Ewell would let it go down without a murmur.","Ewell writes a letter of farewell to his family. Battle is imminent.","Ewell writes of the Battle at Big Black River near Vicksburg. 24,000 men against 75,000 and they were at a disadvantage being hemmed in by the river and a small bridge. He says losing Vicksburg was an unexcusable blunder. He notes that Tennessee regrets their secession. The Yankees are not gentlemen.","Thanks for genealogy. Didn't know Lowndes Jackson had information. Sends $100. Lizzie hasn't returned to Prince Edward, but may settle near here.","There are indications this letter may have been written by Richard S. Ewell rather than Benjamin. \nLife as prisoner. Accused of burning Richmond, but mob did it.  No troops and citizens refused to form constabulary. Story of capture.  Louis should live in Europe, especially England. Lyzinka now in Nashville. If she meets General Hitchcock or Auger [?], ask Brown to be put with general officers. Get Ben to find his luggage and grandfather's sword. Though \"the performance of that wretch Booth\" will permit no indulgence for officers.","Most of furniture gone. Thanks for offer of Stony Lonesome furniture, but no place to put it, and future uncertain. Silver left with the Gatts, also blankets and valuables originally left with Wallers. G, glad she hadn't come south.","Thanks for letter. Did not apply for pardon at suggestion of Gen. Patrick, U.S.A., not in service of Confederate Army at surrender. Took oath as soon as possible. Humbug. Always a rebel. Means of living now as a plucked chicken is to feathers, but no regrets. Johnston the one great military leader. Thanks Gantt for offer of help.","He and Lizzie will try to attend Harriot's wedding, but short of money.  Advice on marriage to Harriot, hold her tongue which often ridicules, especially as Major Turner is Catholic and she will convert.","Thanks for glasses. Sorry not to see her in Baltimore.  What will become of the South?","Lyzinka's poor relations \"pecking\" one, lack of money. People still don't realize condition, or future. If Yankees don't buy land, people will starve. What sort of school is Richard considering?  If 200 young ladies, he will come; but 200 \"wild boys from the West\" will take consideration. Thinks he can find gun and will send it. Received check for $50 from Lyzinka for Lizzie, who will acknowledge it.  If Lyzinka will send $10,000 to rebuild College it would help, for double the amount she can endow a professorship. P.S. re (Waterson's?) editorship of Chattanooga Rebel.","Encloses small check.  Things are gloomy, but to be expected.","Left off stamp on last letter, may cost $50 penalty unless she can put one on. If one of them dies now, loss to survivors irreparable.","Her duty to get whole family into Purgatory- and out. Thanks for pamphlet from the Priest. Liking for Catholic Church.","Received 2 letters from Becca in Georgetown.  Cousin Francis must be getting better. Fine gentleman and great Christian.  Becca has probably gone to Stony Lonesome.","Amount to be paid by Richard, like Vicar of Wakefield to get rid of poor relations, but bid higher. Richard's health might be better if he led more active life. See a good doctor. Perhaps go to Europe till political crisis is over. Charges of treason are nonsense. If Negroes restored to former position, love and good will will return. People in Williamsburg not working to support themselves, need Yankees here [near?] for industry. Send notes of campaigns. Lee was not a great leader! Wants data to support this.","Will not go to Hampton-Sydney, but would like to go to a small farm to while away time.  Washington College at the moment carries the day- but not for long; if Lee tried, college will be political, Bessie well.","Had a book belonging to Georgetown Convent which was carried off with rest of his books, so he is in Convent's debt. Family matters in Tennessee.  Sends $70, please acknowledge.","Campbell feels badly over loss of management of farm. Customs of Dutch and English on patrimony. If possible, divide this land now [?] between Harriot and Campbell, keeping a part to live on. Lyzinka can help Dick buy a farm.  Ben Weems has arrived, a sound fellow, but gauche.","On hand bill advertising the College. Richard didn't stay long enough at springs to benefit.  Story of 2 soldiers in Arizona, hell proves to be hotter.","Enclosures, three clippings of Ewell's letters to the editor of New York Times. 1 clipping titled A Southern College.","Enclosures: Letter from Beverly S. Scott, Jr., at Prince Edward Court House, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 5 September 1867. Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Beverly S. Scott. 9 September 1867","Enclosing letter from Charles McCulloch to Benjamin S. Ewell. 3 October 1870.","Ewell writes that Judge Crump needs the exact statement on General Ewell's orders to burn the tobacco warehouses. Was the order not made twice by General Lee, \"ill judged, harsh, and unnecessary.\" The general's reputation is at stake. Ewell asks how the Scotchmen are working out and would he please come for a month's visit.","\"\"The South and Grant\", from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, 20 May 1872","Enclosures: Two designs for a cemetery monument.","Enclosure: A letter from J. H. Richards, at Georgetown College, West Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C. 29 April 1892.","Elizabeth writes of Paul's severe illness. If he dies, she deems it God's will and they should not mourn too much. Paul dies on March 26th. The burial will be in Centreville. This is more reason than ever for Ben to take care of his health.","Rebecca Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.) Elizabeth S. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes that Richard may bring Liz down from Washington to Brookgrove. She mentions his attempts to get an appointment. Richard saved them all from a mad dog. She goes on to discuss family matters and neighbors.","Elizabeth asks why Benjamin has not written or come. She wanted the pleasure of making his clothes. Tom left for Buckland, Tennessee alone. He has grown so much he was taken for Richard. Richard does well at West Point, but will probably not win Lizinka.","Elizabeth sends family news. Richard does well at West Point. Tom arrived in Nashville. Tasker is joining a law office in Marlboro.","Postscript signed: R. L. E.","The letter includes a check drawn by Elizabeth Ewell payable to Benjamin S. Ewell dated September 18, 1838.","Elizabeth asks Benjamin about his married life and their new home. She tells him to look after William most carefully, buy him a bed and enough bedding. Ben's horse is well looked after. Mrs. Smith is most unwell after her daughter's death from a malignant fever. She cannot visit him because of lack of money, but such a visit would be good for Liz.","Postscript by A. Gantt.","Elizabeth sends family news. Ben Gantt is in Norfolk for three months while the Delaware is refitted. She requests that Ben ask him to visit. The Temperance Movement is growing. Richard will lose out of his United States Bank notes since the bank failed. She includes Lord Byron's view of Catholicism. Richard is at the garrison in Arkansas.","Elizabeth writes that Becca will come if really needed, but the trip is too expensive for pleasure, nor can Elizabeth afford to visit herself. Mr. Fowler's failure caused a loss of $20,000 by Mrs. Pront, his sister. Family members may also have money with him. She mentions that Liz is giving out a Miraculous Medal and is too wrapped up in the Catholic Church. Friends send gifts of fruit tree and garden supplies.","Postscript by R. L. Ewell.","Elizabeth reports news that Levi was killed in the Mexican War. His mother is heartbroken.","Ewell (Elizabeth) to her daughter, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet.","Two undated letters.\nThe first letter is undated: Becca carried home by mistake Ben's letter to E. William escorted Becca home, after preaching twice. Richard's letter of 12/31/51, he is leaving Fort Defiance. Liz to teach Mrs. Hunter's children. Aunt Becca will visit E. in spring. Many deaths at the Johnsons. Regrets new carriage. Love to Julia and Liz. Tenants' rents in arrears, accounts confused. Grandfather Stoddert's war payments being looked into by Mr. Lowndes.  Tasker has sent draft for $114. \nThe second letter on the same sheet is dated March 4, 1852: Glad Ben will come for her, can also go to Jackson to see Aunts, Tom, etc.  Convention being held at Methodist Church. Judge Tucker most important at Convention. Harriet Stoddert graduates soon, may come to Jackson with E. and B.  2p.","Elizabeth S. Ewell, to her father, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Hattie Turner to her cousin, William Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","A. L. Prout to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Lizzie visiting Mrs. Vest. John Petit recently married. Seeming \"ghostly noises\" at President's House, Lizzie's health improved.  E's current reading. Ben building a house at the farm.  He would not have bought so much land, but thought Richard would join him in the purchase, \"the property\" (Stony Lonesome) was fairly purchased by E's husband.  Marstellars [?] tried to get some of W's money from his agent, but failed.","Received much mail. Liz had bad fall on way to a pupil, is to be regular organist at her church. Harriet sent copies of commendation letters for Richard's application as Paymaster from Gen. Scott etc.  Cannot establish her relationship to the Craigheads, but Campbells and Browns related to them. William has too many jobs, as postmaster are his letters mailed free?  Did he receive music Sally Edloe [?] sent?  Lizzy very popular. Deaths and illnesses in neighborhood.  Governor wants to reorganize the College, Ben can get professorship elsewhere if necessary. Aunt Stoddert wants him to come to Oxford University, Mississippi.","Mr. Wilmer preached today. His baby son died recently of cholera.  Commencement party. Mr. Miner's fatal bath. Excited meeting of the College Board.  Gov. Wise wanted to make all State colleges subsidiary to U.Va., but was defeated, but Law School abolished to everyone's regret. Ben resigned the Presidency, will take Chair of Mathematics.  Changes in faculty. Ben wanted William at the College as assistant in Languages and Chaplain, but turned down by Mr. Smead, the Professor of Language. Governor Wise wants to move College to Accomac for sea air.  Liz borrowed money from Ben and has not repaid it, please take it from her money for land. Becca sent ill-tempered letter from Washington.  Lyzinka wants E. to join her in Tennessee, but trip too expensive.  E's fondness for one student.  Letter from Liz, Campbell Brown graduated with high honors, Mr. Beale's board money stolen.\n14 September, 1858, 4p.: Ben resigned Presidency, not his professorship.  If he leaves President's House, the farm house near completion, on 500 acres.  E. does not want to make W's improvements at Stony Lonesome, and Ben needs the money, on which W. could pay taxes.  Mrs. Lowndes died last week to cancer.","Sends $25, get receipt. Powells tried to charge E. twice for furniture, but receipt proved her right. Lizzie goes to York soon. Mr. Stringfellow stopped on way to Gloucester. Please send stationary, black gloves, silk for aprons.","Two undated letters. One mutilated.\nLizzy's over her illness, only a sore throat, but Julia has a cold.  Richard sent 2 articles from New Orleans, about soldiers on parade.  House guests there, Julia gets papers from York, but no letter. Complains about everyone. Tom will send $300, but where? Tom at Jackson on Oct. 2, had some trouble with his men.  Dr. Maxley [?] dined there, will take Julia riding today… Explained diagram of Monterey to Lizzy.\nWilliam came home last night. Heavy rains, W. much shaken by Tom's death.  Julia received political paper. Hopes Lizzy is well. Found the handkerchief L. was hemming.","Two undated letters, both addressed to Cadet B.S. Ewell, Military Academy  at West Point.  \nLetter dated April 17: Paul's death. Aunt Harriet wants Ben to study law in Tennessee. Tom dislikes math. Dick is lazy. Why has Ben's standing gone down in natural philosophy? Must work harder.\nLetter dated April 29: Low much will it cost for Ben to come home?  Paul's death hastened by saving travel money and walking.","Richard not being kept from school by Elizabeth, but of his own accord.  Tom studying Vergil. Liz staying at Brookgrove until Ben can bring her home. Aunt Rebecca has been visiting for 2 or 3 weeks, Aunt Campbell wants to leave Philadelphia, but Lyzinka's progress on harp prevents her, Mrs. Rutledge bringing her 2 daughters to the Point, Becca's health bad, Liz offered $350 to teach in Bladensburg, but declined.  Copy of letter to Mr. Taliaferro [?] about her son's application to the Point.  \nRichard (Thursday) has been enjoying school all week.  \nRichard's postscript. Local News.","Ben too slow in answering letters, paying too much postage, many government men turned out of office. Her memories of bad management in Washington. Sally Lee (Cockerille?) now boarding with Elizabeth at $82 [?] a year. Debating society being spoiled by certain members. Pinched for money. Elizabeth has 13 students.  \nRebecca corrects her mother's misinformation.  Becca is principal teacher, but unpaid.\nRebecca Ewell to Benjamin Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters.","Two letters. \nFebruary 26: Elizabeth's illness, Greenville schoolboys unruly. Liz going to Georgetown. Quotation from Adam's papers.  Tom's poem on Mexican War.\nAugust 2: Mr. Slaughter (minister) now preaching, Aunt Nancy's illness. Ben a lady's man, in love with all 5 Berkley daughters. Tasker, also in love. Making slip covers, Tom reading Sallust.  \nPostscript to Ben: E. has paid part due gales + seaton, don't overpay them. The Tyler's kindness. Trip to Springs would help Aunt Nancy.","Two letters. \nThe first letter discusses nNews of farm. Tom studying Caesar, soon on Virgil, Mr. Meeder his tutor. Current books. News of neighbors.  Liz may stay with Aunt Nancy, as long as she pleases.","Elizabeth S. Ewell to her sister, Rebecca L. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two items. The letter care of Mr. Kingman: Why didn't R. arrive when she said?  Mrs. Kingman welcome to visit. Tom back from Nashville. Ben has moved to Dr. Gardiner's. News of neighbors.\nThe second letter is care of Mr. Prout, May 5: Aunt C. and Lyzinka coming in July.","New clothes being made or purchased. Visits to neighbors, going with Aunt Nancy to see about money owed by government to Benjamin Stoddert Estate.","Sorry to have Becca leave, did Richard then go directly to Baltimore?  Visitors. William enjoying Hampden Sydney. Negroes there restless.  Carriage being mended. Becca must collect rent, as bills are due.","An unsigned letter to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","The musical score of a cotillion and a postscript by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell, appear on the same sheet.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes of Virginia's death. Her mother is ill with dysentary ever since. She tells Benjamin he can come home if he wants. She discusses Virginia's funeral.","Ben's letter unsatisfactory. Miss Bankhead's and Dad's wedding. Horses at farm not too satisfactory, but carriage too expensive.  Gen. Scott's defense from Court Martial. Letter from Uncle William, he will take care of Tom's education. Aunt C. wants Tom to stay in Nashville, where Lyzinka teaches him French. Elizabeth hopes he is now settled in Jackson, Nashville is too luxurious. New Minister has come, stayed one night at Ewell's, wants to board there, girls going to several weddings and parties. Postscript by Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","Elizabeth writes that returning from her ride, she found Rosanna and Fanney Ewell waiting for her. She discusses General Van Ness and Major Minor's unexpected and untimely visit, noting Van Ness's bragging and the Major's amiability. The General invited her mother to live at his house in Washington. A dog was hung for stealing sheep. The post office moved from Greenwich.","Ewell (Elizabeth S.) to Rebecca L. Ewell, at Bladensburgh, Prince George's County, Maryland. Postmarked Buckland. 21 May 1838. (On same sheet.)","The letter is directed to Mrs. Ann Gantt, at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia.","This letter is readdressed to Professor Ewell, Prince Edward County, Virginia, with a postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","She writes that vVery important information about Jesse Ewell's papers was found in Manassas, with G. Washington's survey of his land, etc. Letters from Thomas Ewell to Jesse were found.","Stoddert genealogy.","She writes of Bessie Scott's visit and complications of the family estates. The college had Centenniel. She sends him a journal of it.","Elizabeth S. Ewell sends a letter of sympathy on Benjamin's death. She remarks on Lizzie's constant gentleness and is sorry Ben did not write Richard's life.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters. One is written in July from Georgetown. The other was written Noevmber 14 from Georgetown.","Three letters.","An invitation to the marriage ceremony of their daughter.","Enclosure: Post card from Susan Hutchison, at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, to Jesse Ewell, at Ruckersville, Virginia, 8 January 1913. Postmarked 1914.","Dr. Jesse Ewell, Jr. announces the birth of his son Jesse, the sixth Ewell in line of the name and one of three now living. Part of his father's family still lives in Prince William. Grandfather is 84 years old and his wife, 86. Jesse hopes Benjamin will come to visit.","Jesse recounts Revolutionary War memories of his grandfather Ewell and Charles Ewell's friendship with Jefferson from college days.","This letter contains corrections and additions to the Ewell genealogy, going back to the first immigrants and through the Revolutionary War.","Lizinks writes to Ben, requesting him to visit so her engagement can be announced in Tennessee. Her marriage to Captain Scott will also be there, at Richard's house.","Lizinka sends her condolences on Becca's death. She asks if Ben would come to Tennessee for her wedding.","Paul writes of Aunt Nancy's severe illness and his own. He says Mother will send money if Ben needs it to come home. He shares news of friends. It is very cold, snow six to eight feet deep, and many cattle and sheep have died. Aunt Nancy may go to Tennessee for her health. If by carriage, then Paul will drive.","Postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Postscript by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Postscript by A. Gantt","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Enclosure: manuscript copy of an account of T. Ewell with his father.","Harriot Campbell, at Nashville, Tennessee, to Betsy Ewell. 1 July 1838. (On same sheet.)","Lizinka Campbell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Harriot Campbell to her sister, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Thomas Ewell to Harriet Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","Four undated letters, May 28, October 22, November [?], and September 17.","Invitation to a tea.","Additional messages from Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell and from A. Gantt to Benjamin S. Ewell are on this same sheet.","The letter is a request, by order of General Lee, that Ben organize a battalion for the defence of the neck of land between the James and York, as soon as possible.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, with resolutions of the board thanking Benjamin S. Ewell for his services as an instructor and officer of the college.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, to Benjamin S. Ewell, notifying him of his election to the chair of mathematics.","A letter from James L. Kemper, Governor of Virginia, at Richmond, to Harry Heth is on this same sheet.","Three letters.","Two letters.","Two letters.","An invitation to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1877.","Thanks for E's kindness to J. in hospital.","Witty letter that Jenkins needs a wife.","Memories of early days of the War relived at Edisto[?]., present work on plantation.","Sorrow at devastation of War.  S. depressed.","Judge Tucker's death.  Plans for new instructors at College.","Farming very bad in Texas. W, would J. do better on farm in Tidewater and be able to send his sons to school?","Notification of Ewell's appointment to faculty of T.U. as Professor of Math at @$1200/p.a.","Invitation to a soiree dansante to be given in honor of General Joseph E. Johnston. Enclosure: card of admission.","Johnston will visit Ewell soon in Williamsburg.  Is looking for a suitable line of business.","Appreciates E's offer to give E's place [President of College] to J., who cannot accept. J. asked to accept presidency of Express Company being formed. J. may visit Williamsburg in 4 or 5 weeks.","Glad the faculty interested in Mr. Mitchell.  Glad E. thought of defense of Mr. Barbour.","Thanks for the fine map.  Returns surplus College seals.","If E. remembers Henry Watterson, whose letter is enclosed, would he write letter of recommendation?  J's nephew Robert Hughes is a student at William and Mary. J. regrets he could not visit Williamsburg, will try again soon.","Arrangements for J.'s travel to Williamsburg.","Would E. \"lop off\" and correct J's latest (enclosed) literary effort?","Hopes their friendship will continue. \"The young lady\" has two suitors.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Thanks to the Colonel for the photograph.  News of death of friends.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as Professor of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy.","Lamb will send Mrs. Scott a copy of his address about Benjamin S. Ewell which is being printed for the alumni.","L. will support E. + W. in election race of B.T. Crump for city judge of Richmond.","Andy Campbell's possible move to Coastal Survey Depart., where Bache would like to place a man like Ewell.  Gantt worried about cholera in St. Louis.","Reasons Richard Ewell was passed over for higher rank in Army.","Lewis will be happy to have Rebecca travel with them.","Thanks Ewell for information concerning Battle of Vicksburg.  Will use it judiciously in writing about the War.","Thanks for condolences on death of Lowndes' sister.","Child's letter.","L. will give R. grape and current cuttings.  Some of the Jefferson relations including Fanny Manning have been staying with Patsy.","L. thanks E. for genealogical information on Lowndes and Tasker families.  L. would like to buy some of the plate left to E. by Cousin Frank, if she must sell it.","Family news.  From one of the daughters of Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond.","Sadness in the family. Elizabeth's visit to York, Aunt Sarah will treat her kindly. [Note on letter says \"written shortly after the War.\" McIlwain was Mrs. Julia Ewell's brother.]","Mc. hopes his daughter Julia [Mrs. Benjamin Ewell] will become more accustomed to Virginia ways, and more sedate.","Sorry Julia is so discontented with life in the country.  Mc. looking for German farmer for Ewell farm.","Proud of Ben's new post  Suspended Pa. specie payments.","Religious revival in York.","Expecting Ben and Julia to visit York within the month.  Baltimore and Susquehanna [?] Railroad just opened to York.","Lawsuit of Church still not settled.","Mc. has placed order for Ben's carriage.  Upcoming election of Harrison and Tyler.","Mc. unable to visit Ewells at this time.","Hopes William [McIlwain, his son] will be taught by Rev. Balentine until College begins next term.","On same sheet:  Wm. McIlwain to his daughter, Julia McIlwain Ewell.\nMc. family worried E's not writing. Mc's sending \"Republican\" to Julia for news of home.  Deaths of York friends.\nTo Julia: Rules of behavior.","Typhoid prevailing. York economy depressed, needs congressional Tarriff Bille to cure.","Hopes Julia can visit York.  More about Tariff Bill.","Regrets that Julia and baby have gone back to Virginia.  Julia left some clothes, now should Mc's' send them?","Mc. involved in land suit. Either Ann or Sarah [his daughters] might visit Ewells next summer.  York growing fast.","William McIlvain, Julia's brother, has at last arrived and is helping Me. in this (?) doctor's office. Scarlet Fever epidemic seems over. Crops in York very good.","Death of McIlvain's brother. Land suit has gone to Supreme Court, settled in Mc's favor.  Polk's election.","On same sheet: Wm. McIlvain to Julia Ewell. Grandfather's advice on how to live and die. Aunt Julia's son died.\nTo Julia: glad she is reconciled to \"conjugal peace.\"","Glad she might visit York.  Her mother, Julia McIwain Ewell, had been visiting at Oxford.","Has Ewell unjustly accused McIlvain of mistreating Julia in his letters?  Julia has displayed bad temper which should be curbed.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Thanks for Ewell's letter.\nThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Colonel Magruder needs Ewell to send all wagons and drivers from Williamsburg area and send them to Magruder at once.  Needs them to provision the forces.","On same sheet.  Mahan, D.H., West Point, N.Y., to Benjamin S. Ewell, Lexington, Va. \nTazewell: Letter of recommendation of Ewell as Professor of Mathematics at William and Mary.\nEwell: - Offer of aid in getting William and Mary position.","Quotation from Mr. Tazewell's letter about Ewell's interest in post at William and Mary.  Suggests Ewell come to Richmond to talk to Dr. Lyons.","Discussion of engineering of Dam for James River Improvement.","Benjamin Ewell's abilities as professor of mathematics.","Enclosure:  a letter from C.F. Mercer, Washington, to Dr. Thomas Ewell, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va. 1826 May 29.\nSorrow at Dr. Ewell's death, enclosing letter to him anyway.  Offer to help Ewell's sons.\nEnclosure:  Will try to place Ewell's son at West Point, but places filled for current year.","News of York, election news.","The books Ewell sent have arrived and will be given to the subscribers.","Printed circular letter requesting aid for the family of John Hampden Pleasants who was killed in a duel.","Monroe will go to Tennessee to run Richard Ewell's farm] if wages can be settled.","Monroe and his sister will go to Tennessee to work for Richard Ewell.","Committee of Senior Class presents parting gift to Ewell.","M. sends gift \"from nature.\"  Kate Custis has arrived.","Miss Copland, M's teacher, described news of Williamsburg's young ladies.  Toured College with Mr. Ewell, who showed her \"new philosophical apparatus.\"  M. will begin Hebrew and Sanskrit next winter.","News of friends, amateur dramatics sorrow that Richmond is no longer happy as during the War.","M.'s sister carrying on flirtation in Richmond. Latest dress styles.  Is E. to marry Mr. Snead? News of family and friends.","Three letters.","Two letters. \n1862 March 27: Encloses letter for Elizabeth to give to cousin Hubbard. Staying at Sarah Rutherford's house on Grace Street. The young men of Richmond.\n1862 April: M's will remain in Richmond until after the battle. Description of her gentlemen callers.","S. sorry E. could not join them.  Yankees came to Fork Church recently.  Railroad cut off between Hanover and Richmond.","Sorrow at General Richard Ewell's injury. Group of Williamsburg men, including Ben Ewell, ] started for Williamsburg from Richmond under flag of truce but were sent back to Richmond. Sorrow at burning of College (Wm. and M.) and churches. Dr. Garnett has died, great friend of Elizabeth's, Bland Taliaferro and Colemans are staying in Richmond.","Encloses letter to be forwarded to Page and Annie Wilmer in Danville. Williamsburg now has church, telegraph, tri-weekly boat and daily mail! Town full of yankees, but few interesting Confederate soldiers.  News of noted townspeople.","News of friends in Army. Gossip.","Mrs. M. send $3.00 for 12 yards of suitable dress material.","Letter giving his opinion of Benjamin S. Ewell as an instructor.","Invitation to E. to attend Washington and Lee University graduation in June, to stay with Nelsons.  Senator Mills and Hon. John Goode to be speakers.","Peachy sends Ewell's deed and notes to be signed and notarized.  Mrs. Scott [E's daughter Elizabeth] leaving for St. Louis to stay two or three weeks. Suggests changing name of \"Stony Lonesome\" to something more cheerful.  Dr. Coleman dead of cancer.","Has prepared a series of math text books; will have his publishers send copies.","The letterbook copies of seven letters describe dDescribes troop movements around Vicksburg.","Discusses troop movements and progress of the war.","Is glad they are friends; visited New Orleans and other places.","Discusses the scandal at West Point; lists army transfers; went to a \"fish frolic\"; saw a phrenologist; is sobering up the troops with punishment.","Letter dated simply March 24. Has a whist club; hopes to be able to pay him $50 soon.","Asks if she will stay in the house; asks if anything has been done about the administration; asks if anything has been done about the Virginia Estate.","Informs him of the death of cousin Nannie.","Sends a poem; hopes the College is doing well.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Is visiting her aunts and other friends, family, a. And servants have been sick.","Received a letter from Vera Cruz written after the battle;, recounts the description of the battle where Levi was killed; wants Richard to come home.","Received a letter from Ben which she quotes about Mexico and Levi's death.","Is enjoying her visit; family news; is going to D.C.","Asks her to meet Aunt Ewell at Buckland; Lizzie is very comfortable in the convent; asks her to send music.","Thinks farmers from New Jersey will emigrate to Virginia but are worried about malarial fevers; has a ditch making machine.","Gives a description of Toddsberry (sic) in Gloucester County.","Sends copy of order electing him professor of military science.","Arrived safely; has warned Miss Rebecca that her hair is ½ inch long; the orchestra was invited to the country.","Tells her she will not become fossilized now that she is married; went calling New Years Day.","Thanks him for his kind letter.","Sends copy of Harrison Genealogy; Clarence W. Borden may try to correspond with him about Washington.","Letter of recommendation for Mr. Ewell.","Is restoring \"Belle Air\" and asks about its history.","Thanks him for information; asks for more information of the house.","Thanks her for information; asks for more information.","Describes teaching; brother is going to North Carolina; neighborhood news.","Describes her trip; family news.","Visited the Munfords; family gossip; recipe for green tomatoes.","Is in love with Mr. Rives; family news; people in Williamsburg are not very frightened.","Visited Mrs. Gilmer; advises her not to see Mary C. who is a disgrace; wants to drive the Yankees away; is afraid she will not be able to go back to her house.","Five undated letters.","Expects to leave the county.","Four undated letters.","Misses her and Williamsburg.","Two undated letters.","Asks about her recent marriage; will miss her.","Has inquired into laws on pay for soldiers of Mexican War, but does not feel she has a claim.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Is happy she is better.","Will send her trunk.","Enjoyed her letter; kKnows that they can be happy in spite of poverty.","Children are well.","Colonel is better.","Describes a theater party; saw Keene as Richard; describes how she wants her dress made.","Will go on day duty tomorrow; has much surgical work; is going to a costume party dressed as a black person.","Lists her classes; had her first experience in the clinic; is in a gynecological ward.","Saw the fire; is on night duty.","Is surprised that Yankees eat cornmeal; they talk about the war very much.","Comments on Miss Boyson's prize essay on Robert E. Lee; calls for an end to sectional prejudice.","Received the box and money; Dr.Carter knows her family; describes her work.","Glad Mary is better; wants family to visit; will send a prescription.","Will make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.","Has not named the baby yet.","Comments on marriage; is happy; is not fond of Page anymore; baby will be baptized Elizabeth Lowndes.","Asks about old family letters; has gone to town; family has been sick.","Would like to visit; think she has had a miscarriage; doesn't want any more children.","College will be opened next session; railroad will be finished by October.","Has been going through her father's papers and has destroyed most of them.","Did not want her daughter to be a nurse; did not like her fiance; would have become a sister of charity if her father had not survived the war.","Has had only one servant; Bessie is doing well with nursing.","Thanks her for gifts; received a letter from Ewell in which he speaks of war in the Philippines; his house was burned by rebels; Bessie is working at Bellevue; does not like doing housework.","Father is well; Ewell is working in Hampton; Benjamin will be going to college.","Father has been sick; Beverly has been sick; Ewell has an engineering job in Pennsylvania.","Encloses notes about the Bladen family; Page Saunders is visiting.","Father is well; Bessie is keeping house.","Mr. Grigsby has been visiting; Beverly is at the Farm.","Received his letter; Bessie has arrived.","Thanks her for the letter; visited Virginia Beach and Takoma.","Asks about Hattie.","Glad she will visit; family news; discusses Tom's death.","Tom may not be dead; Ben and William visited.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Statement concerning Benjamin Ewell by Thomas H. Williamson on same sheet.","Has heard rumors that he has resigned; is glad he resigned.","Informs him of a job at Hampden Sidney; has been offered a job at VMI.","Has been carrying Madison for years; has employed Dr. John Graham as surgeon.","Asks her to write; will travel to Richmond.","Typed transcription. Original letter is located in the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 4.","Acknowledges receipt of his photograph. (The author is Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)","Invitation to become a member of the society. (The author is Henry V. Goold of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England.)","Would like to publish General Ewell's report of Gettysburg, but it has already been published; will be publishing a series of papers on Gettysburg. The author is J. William Jones of the Southern Historical Society.]","News of the family; tells her to take anything of his that she needs.","Mrs. Caruthers [?] received the power of attourney; decribes the local girls.","Mr. Caruthens [?]) has received the amount; family news; has had an earthquake; Uncle Henry's negroes were sold.","Lucy has been sick; comments on death of Ann's mother; Rrebecca is going to Washington; Mary Jane is doing well in school.","Has had a headache attack; asks her to visit.","Stoddert family genealogy information.","Has been visiting Harriott; is thinking about courting a young lady.","Has inquired about getting a West Point appointment for Richard; hopes he will leave the army and be a lawyer.","Will find success in the cities; advice for success.","Tom has arrived and he will take care of him; wants to buy Negroes.","Got her abusive letter; has unsuccessfully tried preaching. The letter is postmarked Prince Edward Court House.","Richard was visiting and has been sick; mother and Becca and Emma [?] are being disagreeable.","Has been preaching; Dr. Tyler died; Mrs. Ewell disappeared and they feared she had run off with her beau.","Mother has left; other family news.","May be able to lend money; does not want mother to visit.","Sends money; mother is going to Giles County.","Directions for care of home; thinks Richard will stay in the army.","Would like to repair the porch; sends directions for care of home.","Has received few letters; murderer has taken to Taos where he confessed; describes San Juan Day celebration; Kit Carson traveled with him to the Indian settlement.","Tells her she writes unpleasant letters; will sent money; directions for care of home.","Can't bear to be parted from his mother;  –feels her death deeply.","Is leaving New Mexico for home.","Is very appreciative; is planning to rent a small house.","Has been sick; visited the seminary.","Advises her on marriage.","Advises her not to go to Williamsburg in the summer; has some pupils.","Received letter on Becca's death.","Yankees stole almost everything from Mrs. Jones; is teaching; is caring for four widows.","Is living at the same place; is teaching.","The first letter relates that he went to Spring Hill where Richard was sick; Richard and Lizinka died.\nThe second letter is from : Elizabeth S. Ewell to Anne. Sends the copy of W.S.'s letter.","Describes death of Richard and Lizinka.","Discusses wills of Richard and Lizinka.","Campbell has money for the monument; discusses inscriptions on the monument.","Law limits the pensions to the immediate family; discusses religion.","Received the coffee pot, but does not drink coffee; believes the Texas matter is settled; enjoys where he is living; the people treat their horses badly.","Lizzie is having trouble with Ewell; –describes his bad behavior; is going to a dinner.","Is having trouble breathing; has made a new will.","Has been busy with church activities; his cook is getting better; is taking Belladonna.","Did not have any pain last night; does not feel he should be alone, is well fixed where he is.","Thinks it would be better for Ewell to go away to school; has been working hard.","Describes his day at college; describes a family quarrel; wrote a good speech.","Two letters. Has been working very hard. Incomplete.","Copy of the order appointing Benjamin S. Ewell to the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.","Apologizes for his conduct.","Thanks him for the paper on coal.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Postscript by Robertt. Weir.","Offers to help him.","Asks for information on Colonel Ewell.","Comments on training of civil engineers.","Has opening for civil engineers. [Trimble was chief Engineer of Baltimore and Susquehanna RRr. at this time].","Congratulates him on his marriage.","Sympathy letter on death of her son.","Colonel. Ewell is sick in Macon [?]; General Ewell is sick; war news.","Her father, General Richard Ewell, and mother have died.","Laments death of her parents.","Thinks Hattie is her most attractive child; thinks Lily is peculiar; has been happy in Williamsburg; Col. Ewell has been sick.\nAlso:  Brown, Campbell, to B.S. Ewell. Encloses the above letter.","Sends a photograph; children are sick; has not named her baby yet.","Two letters. The first relays the news that the General has died; the children are well. The second letter is from October 1, no year. ,Has been in Canada; has found mention of cousin Ben and the General in Appleton's biographical dictionary; St. Louis fair is in progress.","Two letters. The first letter relays the news that Lizinka is in Madeira; Lily was invited to break fast with the king of Portugal.\nThe second letter, circa January 24, 1872, informs the receipient that Mother died.","Two letters. The first letter congratulates her on her marriage to Mr. Scott; advises her on how to handle a husband. The second letter, undated, relates that the author has been reading various novels; does not like George Eliot; describes her children.","There are windows in church for her mother and father. Incomplete.","The letter is addressed to \"Lizzie\". Congratulates her on her marriage.","Inquires about a type of earth called \"bermuda tripoli.\"","Thanks him for his letters.","Letter of recommendation for B.S. Ewell to serve as Secretary of the Interior.","His article will be appearing; invites B.S.E. to visit.","Thanks him for the gift.","Asks for a description of Upshur's [?]) father.","Encloses a letter from C. Gallup asking about B.S. Ewell.","The letter is from William H. Zinsser, New York. He suggests a town patrol to help combat lack of morale at Fort Eustis.","Hopes he will keep teaching.","Certificate of election to membership in the Society.","Uncle Newton got married.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Describes his trip through the Carolinas.","Is sending pigs to Mrs. Scott.","Farming suggestions.","Enclosure: Three sheets of data on farming.","Recalls the war; asks for a picture.","Is planning to go to Mississippi; has visited Annapolis; Uncle William is no longer practicing law, but is engaged in speculation; the ball was a failure due to the local clergy.","An incomplete letter concerning a professorship at Transylvania University. Asks him to write; offers him a job at Lexington; describes the college.","Describes problems with workers and the College.","Hopes a month at headquarters will improve her health; the Howe [?]) boy has been killed; has received tea from England. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","The letter is addressed \"To Lizzie\". Has been sewing; social news.","Relates war news. The letter is from \"Cousin\" in Richmond.","Glad she has not left Richmond; relates war news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Sarah\" [McIlvainez?].","Father says the College will stay in Williamsburg; drunken soldiers almost grabbed her arm; social news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Thanks her for the photograph; has had visitors; father has John Brown in ambrotype. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Family news. The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","Received her letter; family news; had her photograph taken. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Bessie left for Norfolk. The letter is signed by \"Mama\". [This is not from Julia Ewell. Probably from a member of the Hoge (?) family.]","Has been sick; has a new book; family news; Negroes are going to have a celebration; her dog was lost. The letter is signed \"Maymay\".","Misses Richmond; social news. The letter is signed: \"Bee\".","Sent her bundle to mother; Hattie sent a pickle knife and fork; wishes she would not get married; family news. Enclosure: A pencil drawing entitled \"Mary's new walking dress.\" The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","The letter is signed: \"Charlotte\". The author comments on her marriage; has been sick.","One letter signed: \"Aunt Lizzie\"","2 items. Both letters may have been authored by Harriet Brown Turner. \n[1865?] May 7 Letter: Uncle is a prisoner; Captain Turner is taking the Oath of Allegiance; mother was arrested; war news. \n[1865?] May 24 Letter: Mother is still under arrest; Captain Turner has arrived; family news; war news.","3 items. Unsigned.","Ben has been sick and died. Signed: \"Matilda\".","Sends a draft for $69; has sold or hidden goods to keep them from Yankees.","Tried to cross Confederate lines; suggests that Richard Ewell [?] leave for Bermuda where money will be provided.","This letter may be addressed to Thomas Ewell. Incomplete. The author urges him to go on with his research.","Has been visiting Bettie; had a bad time at Mrs. Temple's; may marry Mr. Temple.","Will use the money Ccousin William sent; Hattie Turner visited.","This letter may be authored by Richard Ewell Scott. The author describes his hotel and the soldiers.","12 items.","Series 2 includes papers from various sources","1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.","1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.","This folder contains a rough draft of an address made before the city council of Williamsburg, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.","Colonel Benjamin S. Ewell,  for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)","1 item.","1 item.","SEE OVERSIZE FILE","The deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.","The deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","1 item.","The letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.","1 item. Copy.","1 item.","Signed John Letcher.","Signed John Letcher.","The letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.","Signed James A. Sedden.","Certificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.","Full title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.","USMA Reunion booklet that includes Necrology with published version of \"Benjamin S. Ewell: A Tribute by E.J. Harvie.\" Pages 11-14.","This folder contains a single document: dDeed given by Elizabeth Ewell, widow of Thomas Ewell, et al., of Prince William County, to Alexander Spotswood Grigsby, covering two lots in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: dDraft of deed granting to Benjamin S. Ewell and William Stoddert her interest in a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia.","A memorandum book of which only 19 pages of the 336 pages were written upon. The book contains data on the Ewell family, including several extracts of letters dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.","An greement of Elizabeth S. Ewell, R. S. Ewell, William Stoddert, and Benjamin S. Ewell to carry into effect the will of Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, that was declared invalid by the court","1 item. The article concerns Richard S. Ewell's part in the second capture of Winchester, with a note by H. S. Turner.","Includes a note by Campbell Brown dated November 6, 1873.","A poem written by Dr. H. M. Clarkson for the Ewell centennial celebration held at Manassas, Virginia, by the Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans.","Plat of a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia, surveyed for Dr. Thomas Ewell, 1821","Apothecary's scales used by Dr. Thomas Ewell, surgeon, in the War of 1812.","Copy of a notice in the National Intelligencer announcing the death of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.","Copy.","This folder contains a single letter. The writer notes that this is an extract from a letter written by President James Madison, at Montpelier, to Mr.Edward Coles.","Broadside. Printed circular letter advertising as a summer resort, Belle-Air in Prince William County, Virginia, the old home of the Ewell family.","1 item. An essay on Williamsburg by Elizabeth L. Scott.","This folder contains 58 items. There are papers in English, Spanish, and Japanese, including a Japanese pencil sketch.","Letter from Marquess, W.H., Mexico, Missouri, to W. Stoddert.","Certified copy. Requesting the governor to procure exemption from military duty for employees of Eubanks and Co.,  \u0026 Co., cotton and wool carders.","This folder contains genealogical information, including some from the Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania.","31\" x 36\" Plat of Ewell property showing \"Old line Bowden, Ewell.\"","Series 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.","Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, which is signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries.  A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries. A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Series 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe following letters and papers were originally included in the Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, but have been removed:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from 'V. Jefferson Davis' (Varina Davis) at Beauvoir House, Beauvoir, Mississippi, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1890 January 25. This letter acknowledges receipt of the resolutions passed by the citizens of Williamsburg and James City County on the death of Jefferson Davis. This item has been transferred to the Jefferson Davis Papers. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Sallie Munford at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth Ewell. 1865 May 16. This item has been transferred to Virginia Cities - Williamsburg Papers (Folder 3). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMason family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeale family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of Malachi Gardner, carriage driver of Benjamin S. Ewell. Undated. As of 5/2016, this item has been transferred to the Portrait File: University Archives Photograph Collection, F and S, Gardiner, Malachi. 2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe letters below were transferred to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collecton) or the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Robert Nelson at Shanghai, China, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1873 November 10. This item has been transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 139.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. N. Page at Shelby, Gloucester County, Virginia, to Professor Benjamin S. Ewell. 1849 April 18. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles F. Richardson at New York, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 1877 March 9. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn act to establish a normal school at William and Mary College. 1888 March 19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution of the alumni association of William and Mary College, upon the death of Benjamin S. Ewell. 1894 October 1. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo pages from a report of Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage 17 of a report by Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated. The report includes a quotation from an address by former president John Tyler to the alumni of William and Mary on the 166th Anniversary. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage 19 of a paper concerning the establishment of a normal college. Undated. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted card containing information about William and Mary College. Undated. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlack certificate of proficiency. College of William and Mary Papers. Undated. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBraxton (Corbin) to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Buckland, Prince William County, Virginia Postmarked Richmond, Virginia, 1848 July 24 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBurgess (B.J.), at Wilmington, North Carolina, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1878 November 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCraik (James), at Louisville, Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1876 September 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavies (Charles), at New York, to John Tyler, 1848 April 27. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Benjamin S.), at Washington, D.C., to Charles W. Porter, 1872 February 16\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Elizabeth) to Richard Ewell, 1858 July 9. (See William and Mary Papers, Folder 17, Item 3.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Elizabeth) to William Stoddert, 1858 July 22\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForest (Douglas F.), at Washington, D.C., to the President and Faculty of William and Mary College, 1879 March 26\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFulton (William), at Salisbury, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, 1872 July 29\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGilman (D. C.), at Baltimore, Maryland, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1887 May 28\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGriffin (J. L. C.), at Sharon, Mississippi, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1855 January 12\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrisby (Hugh Blair), at Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1868 January 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrisby (Hugh Blair), at Edgehill, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1872 June 2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHall (J. Lesslie), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Mrs. Beverly Scott, at Ewell, James City County, Virginia, 1902 February 7\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHobson (Annie J. W.), at Richmond, to Col. Ewell, 1877 September 29\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHoge (Addison), at Oxford, Mississippi, to Col. B. S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1888 May 18\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHough (M.), at Baltimore, to Elizabeth Ewell, daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, 1859 February 9\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLee (J. F.), at Annapolis, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, 1868 January 23\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcLane (Robert), at Washington, D.C., to John Tyler and the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College, Virginia, 1848 April 5. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 82, page 2, item 2m papers relating to the appointment of Benjamin S. Ewell to the chair of mathematics, 1848 April 5-27\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeade (William), at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, to Professor Ewell, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1849 March 18. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 99. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMunford (Maria), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth S. Ewell, 1859 October 30 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMunford (Maria) to Elizabeth S. Ewell, undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith (R. McF.), at Nashville, Tennessee, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Ewell, Virginia, 1892 October 3. Original letter was transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 127, page 5. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSweet (Drew), at Waynesville, Ohio, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1887 May 15\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTurner (Harriot S.), at Washington, D.C., to Dr. [?] Wise, undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTurner (Harriot S.) to Dr. Wise, undated \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWatkins (F. N.), at Hampden Sidney College, to the Visitors of the William and Mary University, 1848 April 7. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest (Robert), at North East P.O., Cecil County, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1866 April 8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWyatt (Charles B.), at San Francisco, California, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1869 April 8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unknown person to Elizabeth Ewell, undated. Incomplete. Transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 120. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from R. McCandlish at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. Forwarded to Buckland, Prince William County. 1848 July 15.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This letter was moved to the College Papers Collection, UA 14, Box 5, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collection, UA 14), Box 9, Folder 2. Place holder sheet in folder states: See: William and Mary College papers. folder 138. A second sheet (acidic paper) notes ...taken from Ewell Papers because it mentions honorary degree of L.L.D. conferred by Wiliam and Mary upon Dr. Craik. On separated materials list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 6, Folder 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. (39.4 G29). 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. (39.4 G29). 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following letters and papers were originally included in the Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, but have been removed:","Letter from 'V. Jefferson Davis' (Varina Davis) at Beauvoir House, Beauvoir, Mississippi, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1890 January 25. This letter acknowledges receipt of the resolutions passed by the citizens of Williamsburg and James City County on the death of Jefferson Davis. This item has been transferred to the Jefferson Davis Papers.","Letter from Sallie Munford at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth Ewell. 1865 May 16. This item has been transferred to Virginia Cities - Williamsburg Papers (Folder 3).","Mason family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Neale family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Photograph of Malachi Gardner, carriage driver of Benjamin S. Ewell. Undated. As of 5/2016, this item has been transferred to the Portrait File: University Archives Photograph Collection, F and S, Gardiner, Malachi. 2 copies.","The letters below were transferred to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collecton) or the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records:","Letter from Robert Nelson at Shanghai, China, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1873 November 10. This item has been transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 139.","Letter from F. N. Page at Shelby, Gloucester County, Virginia, to Professor Benjamin S. Ewell. 1849 April 18.","Letter from Charles F. Richardson at New York, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 1877 March 9.","An act to establish a normal school at William and Mary College. 1888 March 19.","Resolution of the alumni association of William and Mary College, upon the death of Benjamin S. Ewell. 1894 October 1.","Two pages from a report of Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated.","Page 17 of a report by Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated. The report includes a quotation from an address by former president John Tyler to the alumni of William and Mary on the 166th Anniversary.","Page 19 of a paper concerning the establishment of a normal college. Undated.","Printed card containing information about William and Mary College. Undated.","Black certificate of proficiency. College of William and Mary Papers. Undated.","Braxton (Corbin) to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Buckland, Prince William County, Virginia Postmarked Richmond, Virginia, 1848 July 24","Burgess (B.J.), at Wilmington, North Carolina, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1878 November 2","Craik (James), at Louisville, Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1876 September 2","Davies (Charles), at New York, to John Tyler, 1848 April 27. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Ewell (Benjamin S.), at Washington, D.C., to Charles W. Porter, 1872 February 16","Ewell (Elizabeth) to Richard Ewell, 1858 July 9. (See William and Mary Papers, Folder 17, Item 3.)","Ewell (Elizabeth) to William Stoddert, 1858 July 22","Forest (Douglas F.), at Washington, D.C., to the President and Faculty of William and Mary College, 1879 March 26","Fulton (William), at Salisbury, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, 1872 July 29","Gilman (D. C.), at Baltimore, Maryland, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1887 May 28","Griffin (J. L. C.), at Sharon, Mississippi, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1855 January 12","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1868 January 2","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Edgehill, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1872 June 2","Hall (J. Lesslie), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Mrs. Beverly Scott, at Ewell, James City County, Virginia, 1902 February 7","Hobson (Annie J. W.), at Richmond, to Col. Ewell, 1877 September 29","Hoge (Addison), at Oxford, Mississippi, to Col. B. S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1888 May 18","Hough (M.), at Baltimore, to Elizabeth Ewell, daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, 1859 February 9","Lee (J. F.), at Annapolis, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, 1868 January 23","McLane (Robert), at Washington, D.C., to John Tyler and the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College, Virginia, 1848 April 5. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 82, page 2, item 2m papers relating to the appointment of Benjamin S. Ewell to the chair of mathematics, 1848 April 5-27","Meade (William), at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, to Professor Ewell, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1849 March 18. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 99.","Munford (Maria), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth S. Ewell, 1859 October 30","Munford (Maria) to Elizabeth S. Ewell, undated","Smith (R. McF.), at Nashville, Tennessee, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Ewell, Virginia, 1892 October 3. Original letter was transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 127, page 5.","Sweet (Drew), at Waynesville, Ohio, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1887 May 15","Turner (Harriot S.), at Washington, D.C., to Dr. [?] Wise, undated","Turner (Harriot S.) to Dr. Wise, undated","Watkins (F. N.), at Hampden Sidney College, to the Visitors of the William and Mary University, 1848 April 7. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","West (Robert), at North East P.O., Cecil County, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1866 April 8","Wyatt (Charles B.), at San Francisco, California, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1869 April 8","Letter from unknown person to Elizabeth Ewell, undated. Incomplete. Transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 120.","Letter from R. McCandlish at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. Forwarded to Buckland, Prince William County. 1848 July 15.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 2.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This letter was moved to the College Papers Collection, UA 14, Box 5, Folder 4.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collection, UA 14), Box 9, Folder 2. Place holder sheet in folder states: See: William and Mary College papers. folder 138. A second sheet (acidic paper) notes ...taken from Ewell Papers because it mentions honorary degree of L.L.D. conferred by Wiliam and Mary upon Dr. Craik. On separated materials list.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 6, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","Physical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection has been organized into six series.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.","Series 2 includes papers from various sources.","Series 3 is the plat of Ewell property.","Series 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.","Series 5 is a scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. There are some handwritten poems and many published poems in the newspaper clippings. (Acc. No. 2008.196)","Series 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)","Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., June 10, 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth Stoddert. He graduated from United States Military Academy and taught there. He taught at Hampden- Sydney College and at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1848, he was elected professor of mathematics and acting president of College of William and Mary and in 1854, became president. He was colonel of 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment and later assistant adjutant-general to Joseph E. Johnston. He was president of William and Mary 1854-1888 and died in 1894. He was the brother of Richard Stoddert Ewell, had another brother, William Stoddert, a sister Elizabeth S. Ewell, and a daughter, Elizabeth S. Ewell Scott.","Elizabeth Ewell was the mother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth S. Ewell was the sister of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell was the daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell was the brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell was the brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Thomas Ewell was the father of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Thomas Ewell was the father of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth L. Scott was the granddaughter of Benjamin S. Ewell.","R. Ewell Scott was the grandson of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Julia McIlvaine Ewell was the wife of Benjamin Ewell.","The original finding aid references \"Photographs of pages from the Ewell Family Bible\"; however, these were not located with the collection as of April 11, 2018. Karen King, SCRC Staff.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 1 titled \"Letters, A-B\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 1 titled \"Letters, A-B\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 1 titled \"Letters, A-B\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 2 titled \"Letters, C-D\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folder 2 titled \"Letters, C-D\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 1, Folders 3 and 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folders 3 and 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folders 3 and 4, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 5, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 6, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 2, Folder 6 and Box 3, Folder 7, Subseries titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 7, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 8, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 8, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 9, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 3, Folder 9, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 10, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 10, titled \"Letters, E\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 11, titled \"Letters, F-G\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 12, titled \"Letters, H\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 4, Folder 12, titled \"Letters, H\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 13, titled \"Letters, I-K\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 14, titled \"Letters, L-M\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 14, titled \"Letters, L-M\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 15, titled \"Letters, N-R\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 16, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 5, Folder 16, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 17, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 17, titled \"Letters, S\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 18, titled \"Letters, T-Z\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 18, titled \"Letters, T-Z\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 19, titled \"Letters from unknown persons\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 6, Folder 19, titled \"Letters from unknown persons\".","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 20, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 22, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 23, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 8, Folder 24, under Series 2: Papers.","The contents of this folder were originally housed in Box 7, Folder 21, under Series 2: Papers.","Item is currently missing. K. King 4/11/2018.","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00084.frame","Letter was not found in this collection during digitization. May have been separated and in Office of the President. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, UA 2.06, Box 1, folder 3.","Acc. 2011.020 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011.","Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers in the Swem Library Special Collections' University Archives section (UA 2.06). See also a report (entitled 'diary') of B. S. Ewell, April-August 1864 (Box 5, Vol. 5) in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers for a discussion of Williamsburg during the War.","At the York County Heritage Trust:\nFolder 13416: Letter from George Hay Kain to Isabel Small, September  11, 1950 and September 14, 1950; reply from Isabel Small to George Kain, September 12, 1957 (Information on McIlwaine family residence location in York and recollections of Gen. Jubal Early's visit to the family at request of Gen. Richard Ewell, Julia's brother-in-law). -On  microfilm: The Republican newspaper, April 17, 1839, marriage announcement of Benjamin S. Ewell to Julia Ann McIwaine, April 16, 1839; also bound Marriage Index to York Newspapers 1783-1850 entry. -Folder 19684, The Jere Kere Carl Scrap Book, Vol. 19, pg. 160, obituary of Mrs. Julia Ewell.","This collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","The letter is in reference to the Revolutionary War claim of the Stoddert family.","Two letters, one including a receipt.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Note: This letter includes a recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as a professor, signed by five professors at the United States Military Academy.","The letters discusses the death of Aunt Rebecca due to consumption.","The note discusses Aunt Rebecca's death.","General Ewell brought her here with her mother. The army is at Liberty Hills. Campbell Brown joined them for the celebration. The General says the army may go on to Baltimore. \"The Cheryb\" in Richmond may have their leg amputated. General Long, Fitzhugh Lee, Col. Chambliss, Major Gresiand, and Mr. Smith are there. Brown writes of family news and boarding house arrangements. She sends congratulations on General Magruder's victory at Sabine Pass.","Brown writes that Elizabeth's letter arrive with some grom General Ewell and Campbell. The army is moving soon. She had been at Stony Lonesome and the windows and fences are ruined. She relates news of the capture of nine Yankees by Captain Jones, General Gordon's aide-de-camp at Bristol.","She writes more from Brandy Station and is going back to Charlottesville. She notes that General Ewell must get a new artificial leg. The officers' spirits are still high.","See also Harriot S. Turner.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2. formerly William and Mary College Papers.","A short unsigned letter. On same sheet: Thomas Ewell, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","This letter includes two others: Lizinka Campbell to her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet) and Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (also on the same sheet.)","This letter also includes a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","This letter also contains a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship, Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. The recommendation is for Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","The letter advises Colonel Ewell that his state of health makes him unable to serve in the field.","2 copies.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers.","Crump writes that he needs the exact information on the burning of Richmond tobacco warehouses because of a lawsuit. He asks if General Ewell set the fires at General Lee's order.","An invitation to the marriage reception of their daughter. Enclosures: Two cards, Emmy A. Crump and William B. Lightfoot.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Deas writes of Ewell's promotion to Colonel, 32nd Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. He asks that Ewell please report to Richmond Headquarters.","A certificate of dismission of Benjamin S. Ewell from Hampden Sidney Church and of recommendation to the church at Lexington, Virginia.","On same sheet.","This letter contains an extract from the Register of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1850.","The contents of this folder were previously housed in Box 1, folder 3, \"Letters, E\".","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Benjamin Ewell writes about life at West Point. He comments on current literature. He spent the last two years studying mathematics, which will never be of any service until he should become a teacher.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. The lack of funds keeps him from coming home for vacation. He worries over Congress's changes for West Point. He asks her to please make five more shirts.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. Exams are over. Life at West Point is confining. He will not go to Tennessee, but is grateful for the other.","Benjamin Ewell thanks his uncle for his generosity, but doubts Mr. Ewell will let Richard come to him. Ewell will not stay in the Army. There is no chance to advance unless there is a war. He may go into Legal Studies, having ambition and political interest. However, lacking money, he may set other goals. The possibility of war with France might change the situation.","(This letter is likely dated as 1836. Lizinka was born in 1820 and she is mentioned as being age 16. Ewell was not at West Point, nor Rebecca at Bladensburgh, in 1838.)","Benjamin writes he has dispersed some pictures and kept only good ones. They discuss dyspepsia, a \"many headed monster\". The war with France has been averted. Lizinka enjoyed Washington too much for a girl so young. He was riding with a French lady when her horse bolted, which led to rumors of his elopment.","Ewell writes that he cannot reconcile two laws, referring to the raising of troops. He asks which is valid. The answer by S. Bassett French, aide de camp, dated February 26, 1862, on back of sheet, notes that Virginia law rather than Congress is binding. If 20 in a camp reenlist, he will fill in the rest of the numbers.","Note: Map of Richmond and vicinity on back of letter.","Benjamin discusses the people and land of east Tennessee, as well as the Lousiana Volunteers. He says the Confederates will win if not greatly outnumbered. Uncle Dick should come; he is needed by the Army.","Ewell notes that he is glad Uncle Dick didn't come. The Yankees grow bolder, stealing horses. He hopes the Yankees will not be hard on Williamsburg in consequence of new attacks. He writes had Fort Magruder had been where it ought, Williamsburg could have been saved. It its destruction is truly important to success, Ewell would let it go down without a murmur.","Ewell writes a letter of farewell to his family. Battle is imminent.","Ewell writes of the Battle at Big Black River near Vicksburg. 24,000 men against 75,000 and they were at a disadvantage being hemmed in by the river and a small bridge. He says losing Vicksburg was an unexcusable blunder. He notes that Tennessee regrets their secession. The Yankees are not gentlemen.","Thanks for genealogy. Didn't know Lowndes Jackson had information. Sends $100. Lizzie hasn't returned to Prince Edward, but may settle near here.","There are indications this letter may have been written by Richard S. Ewell rather than Benjamin. \nLife as prisoner. Accused of burning Richmond, but mob did it.  No troops and citizens refused to form constabulary. Story of capture.  Louis should live in Europe, especially England. Lyzinka now in Nashville. If she meets General Hitchcock or Auger [?], ask Brown to be put with general officers. Get Ben to find his luggage and grandfather's sword. Though \"the performance of that wretch Booth\" will permit no indulgence for officers.","Most of furniture gone. Thanks for offer of Stony Lonesome furniture, but no place to put it, and future uncertain. Silver left with the Gatts, also blankets and valuables originally left with Wallers. G, glad she hadn't come south.","Thanks for letter. Did not apply for pardon at suggestion of Gen. Patrick, U.S.A., not in service of Confederate Army at surrender. Took oath as soon as possible. Humbug. Always a rebel. Means of living now as a plucked chicken is to feathers, but no regrets. Johnston the one great military leader. Thanks Gantt for offer of help.","He and Lizzie will try to attend Harriot's wedding, but short of money.  Advice on marriage to Harriot, hold her tongue which often ridicules, especially as Major Turner is Catholic and she will convert.","Thanks for glasses. Sorry not to see her in Baltimore.  What will become of the South?","Lyzinka's poor relations \"pecking\" one, lack of money. People still don't realize condition, or future. If Yankees don't buy land, people will starve. What sort of school is Richard considering?  If 200 young ladies, he will come; but 200 \"wild boys from the West\" will take consideration. Thinks he can find gun and will send it. Received check for $50 from Lyzinka for Lizzie, who will acknowledge it.  If Lyzinka will send $10,000 to rebuild College it would help, for double the amount she can endow a professorship. P.S. re (Waterson's?) editorship of Chattanooga Rebel.","Encloses small check.  Things are gloomy, but to be expected.","Left off stamp on last letter, may cost $50 penalty unless she can put one on. If one of them dies now, loss to survivors irreparable.","Her duty to get whole family into Purgatory- and out. Thanks for pamphlet from the Priest. Liking for Catholic Church.","Received 2 letters from Becca in Georgetown.  Cousin Francis must be getting better. Fine gentleman and great Christian.  Becca has probably gone to Stony Lonesome.","Amount to be paid by Richard, like Vicar of Wakefield to get rid of poor relations, but bid higher. Richard's health might be better if he led more active life. See a good doctor. Perhaps go to Europe till political crisis is over. Charges of treason are nonsense. If Negroes restored to former position, love and good will will return. People in Williamsburg not working to support themselves, need Yankees here [near?] for industry. Send notes of campaigns. Lee was not a great leader! Wants data to support this.","Will not go to Hampton-Sydney, but would like to go to a small farm to while away time.  Washington College at the moment carries the day- but not for long; if Lee tried, college will be political, Bessie well.","Had a book belonging to Georgetown Convent which was carried off with rest of his books, so he is in Convent's debt. Family matters in Tennessee.  Sends $70, please acknowledge.","Campbell feels badly over loss of management of farm. Customs of Dutch and English on patrimony. If possible, divide this land now [?] between Harriot and Campbell, keeping a part to live on. Lyzinka can help Dick buy a farm.  Ben Weems has arrived, a sound fellow, but gauche.","On hand bill advertising the College. Richard didn't stay long enough at springs to benefit.  Story of 2 soldiers in Arizona, hell proves to be hotter.","Enclosures, three clippings of Ewell's letters to the editor of New York Times. 1 clipping titled A Southern College.","Enclosures: Letter from Beverly S. Scott, Jr., at Prince Edward Court House, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 5 September 1867. Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Beverly S. Scott. 9 September 1867","Enclosing letter from Charles McCulloch to Benjamin S. Ewell. 3 October 1870.","Ewell writes that Judge Crump needs the exact statement on General Ewell's orders to burn the tobacco warehouses. Was the order not made twice by General Lee, \"ill judged, harsh, and unnecessary.\" The general's reputation is at stake. Ewell asks how the Scotchmen are working out and would he please come for a month's visit.","\"\"The South and Grant\", from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, 20 May 1872","Enclosures: Two designs for a cemetery monument.","Enclosure: A letter from J. H. Richards, at Georgetown College, West Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C. 29 April 1892.","Elizabeth writes of Paul's severe illness. If he dies, she deems it God's will and they should not mourn too much. Paul dies on March 26th. The burial will be in Centreville. This is more reason than ever for Ben to take care of his health.","Rebecca Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.) Elizabeth S. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes that Richard may bring Liz down from Washington to Brookgrove. She mentions his attempts to get an appointment. Richard saved them all from a mad dog. She goes on to discuss family matters and neighbors.","Elizabeth asks why Benjamin has not written or come. She wanted the pleasure of making his clothes. Tom left for Buckland, Tennessee alone. He has grown so much he was taken for Richard. Richard does well at West Point, but will probably not win Lizinka.","Elizabeth sends family news. Richard does well at West Point. Tom arrived in Nashville. Tasker is joining a law office in Marlboro.","Postscript signed: R. L. E.","The letter includes a check drawn by Elizabeth Ewell payable to Benjamin S. Ewell dated September 18, 1838.","Elizabeth asks Benjamin about his married life and their new home. She tells him to look after William most carefully, buy him a bed and enough bedding. Ben's horse is well looked after. Mrs. Smith is most unwell after her daughter's death from a malignant fever. She cannot visit him because of lack of money, but such a visit would be good for Liz.","Postscript by A. Gantt.","Elizabeth sends family news. Ben Gantt is in Norfolk for three months while the Delaware is refitted. She requests that Ben ask him to visit. The Temperance Movement is growing. Richard will lose out of his United States Bank notes since the bank failed. She includes Lord Byron's view of Catholicism. Richard is at the garrison in Arkansas.","Elizabeth writes that Becca will come if really needed, but the trip is too expensive for pleasure, nor can Elizabeth afford to visit herself. Mr. Fowler's failure caused a loss of $20,000 by Mrs. Pront, his sister. Family members may also have money with him. She mentions that Liz is giving out a Miraculous Medal and is too wrapped up in the Catholic Church. Friends send gifts of fruit tree and garden supplies.","Postscript by R. L. Ewell.","Elizabeth reports news that Levi was killed in the Mexican War. His mother is heartbroken.","Ewell (Elizabeth) to her daughter, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet.","Two undated letters.\nThe first letter is undated: Becca carried home by mistake Ben's letter to E. William escorted Becca home, after preaching twice. Richard's letter of 12/31/51, he is leaving Fort Defiance. Liz to teach Mrs. Hunter's children. Aunt Becca will visit E. in spring. Many deaths at the Johnsons. Regrets new carriage. Love to Julia and Liz. Tenants' rents in arrears, accounts confused. Grandfather Stoddert's war payments being looked into by Mr. Lowndes.  Tasker has sent draft for $114. \nThe second letter on the same sheet is dated March 4, 1852: Glad Ben will come for her, can also go to Jackson to see Aunts, Tom, etc.  Convention being held at Methodist Church. Judge Tucker most important at Convention. Harriet Stoddert graduates soon, may come to Jackson with E. and B.  2p.","Elizabeth S. Ewell, to her father, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Hattie Turner to her cousin, William Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","A. L. Prout to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Lizzie visiting Mrs. Vest. John Petit recently married. Seeming \"ghostly noises\" at President's House, Lizzie's health improved.  E's current reading. Ben building a house at the farm.  He would not have bought so much land, but thought Richard would join him in the purchase, \"the property\" (Stony Lonesome) was fairly purchased by E's husband.  Marstellars [?] tried to get some of W's money from his agent, but failed.","Received much mail. Liz had bad fall on way to a pupil, is to be regular organist at her church. Harriet sent copies of commendation letters for Richard's application as Paymaster from Gen. Scott etc.  Cannot establish her relationship to the Craigheads, but Campbells and Browns related to them. William has too many jobs, as postmaster are his letters mailed free?  Did he receive music Sally Edloe [?] sent?  Lizzy very popular. Deaths and illnesses in neighborhood.  Governor wants to reorganize the College, Ben can get professorship elsewhere if necessary. Aunt Stoddert wants him to come to Oxford University, Mississippi.","Mr. Wilmer preached today. His baby son died recently of cholera.  Commencement party. Mr. Miner's fatal bath. Excited meeting of the College Board.  Gov. Wise wanted to make all State colleges subsidiary to U.Va., but was defeated, but Law School abolished to everyone's regret. Ben resigned the Presidency, will take Chair of Mathematics.  Changes in faculty. Ben wanted William at the College as assistant in Languages and Chaplain, but turned down by Mr. Smead, the Professor of Language. Governor Wise wants to move College to Accomac for sea air.  Liz borrowed money from Ben and has not repaid it, please take it from her money for land. Becca sent ill-tempered letter from Washington.  Lyzinka wants E. to join her in Tennessee, but trip too expensive.  E's fondness for one student.  Letter from Liz, Campbell Brown graduated with high honors, Mr. Beale's board money stolen.\n14 September, 1858, 4p.: Ben resigned Presidency, not his professorship.  If he leaves President's House, the farm house near completion, on 500 acres.  E. does not want to make W's improvements at Stony Lonesome, and Ben needs the money, on which W. could pay taxes.  Mrs. Lowndes died last week to cancer.","Sends $25, get receipt. Powells tried to charge E. twice for furniture, but receipt proved her right. Lizzie goes to York soon. Mr. Stringfellow stopped on way to Gloucester. Please send stationary, black gloves, silk for aprons.","Two undated letters. One mutilated.\nLizzy's over her illness, only a sore throat, but Julia has a cold.  Richard sent 2 articles from New Orleans, about soldiers on parade.  House guests there, Julia gets papers from York, but no letter. Complains about everyone. Tom will send $300, but where? Tom at Jackson on Oct. 2, had some trouble with his men.  Dr. Maxley [?] dined there, will take Julia riding today… Explained diagram of Monterey to Lizzy.\nWilliam came home last night. Heavy rains, W. much shaken by Tom's death.  Julia received political paper. Hopes Lizzy is well. Found the handkerchief L. was hemming.","Two undated letters, both addressed to Cadet B.S. Ewell, Military Academy  at West Point.  \nLetter dated April 17: Paul's death. Aunt Harriet wants Ben to study law in Tennessee. Tom dislikes math. Dick is lazy. Why has Ben's standing gone down in natural philosophy? Must work harder.\nLetter dated April 29: Low much will it cost for Ben to come home?  Paul's death hastened by saving travel money and walking.","Richard not being kept from school by Elizabeth, but of his own accord.  Tom studying Vergil. Liz staying at Brookgrove until Ben can bring her home. Aunt Rebecca has been visiting for 2 or 3 weeks, Aunt Campbell wants to leave Philadelphia, but Lyzinka's progress on harp prevents her, Mrs. Rutledge bringing her 2 daughters to the Point, Becca's health bad, Liz offered $350 to teach in Bladensburg, but declined.  Copy of letter to Mr. Taliaferro [?] about her son's application to the Point.  \nRichard (Thursday) has been enjoying school all week.  \nRichard's postscript. Local News.","Ben too slow in answering letters, paying too much postage, many government men turned out of office. Her memories of bad management in Washington. Sally Lee (Cockerille?) now boarding with Elizabeth at $82 [?] a year. Debating society being spoiled by certain members. Pinched for money. Elizabeth has 13 students.  \nRebecca corrects her mother's misinformation.  Becca is principal teacher, but unpaid.\nRebecca Ewell to Benjamin Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters.","Two letters. \nFebruary 26: Elizabeth's illness, Greenville schoolboys unruly. Liz going to Georgetown. Quotation from Adam's papers.  Tom's poem on Mexican War.\nAugust 2: Mr. Slaughter (minister) now preaching, Aunt Nancy's illness. Ben a lady's man, in love with all 5 Berkley daughters. Tasker, also in love. Making slip covers, Tom reading Sallust.  \nPostscript to Ben: E. has paid part due gales + seaton, don't overpay them. The Tyler's kindness. Trip to Springs would help Aunt Nancy.","Two letters. \nThe first letter discusses nNews of farm. Tom studying Caesar, soon on Virgil, Mr. Meeder his tutor. Current books. News of neighbors.  Liz may stay with Aunt Nancy, as long as she pleases.","Elizabeth S. Ewell to her sister, Rebecca L. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two items. The letter care of Mr. Kingman: Why didn't R. arrive when she said?  Mrs. Kingman welcome to visit. Tom back from Nashville. Ben has moved to Dr. Gardiner's. News of neighbors.\nThe second letter is care of Mr. Prout, May 5: Aunt C. and Lyzinka coming in July.","New clothes being made or purchased. Visits to neighbors, going with Aunt Nancy to see about money owed by government to Benjamin Stoddert Estate.","Sorry to have Becca leave, did Richard then go directly to Baltimore?  Visitors. William enjoying Hampden Sydney. Negroes there restless.  Carriage being mended. Becca must collect rent, as bills are due.","An unsigned letter to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","The musical score of a cotillion and a postscript by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell, appear on the same sheet.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes of Virginia's death. Her mother is ill with dysentary ever since. She tells Benjamin he can come home if he wants. She discusses Virginia's funeral.","Ben's letter unsatisfactory. Miss Bankhead's and Dad's wedding. Horses at farm not too satisfactory, but carriage too expensive.  Gen. Scott's defense from Court Martial. Letter from Uncle William, he will take care of Tom's education. Aunt C. wants Tom to stay in Nashville, where Lyzinka teaches him French. Elizabeth hopes he is now settled in Jackson, Nashville is too luxurious. New Minister has come, stayed one night at Ewell's, wants to board there, girls going to several weddings and parties. Postscript by Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","Elizabeth writes that returning from her ride, she found Rosanna and Fanney Ewell waiting for her. She discusses General Van Ness and Major Minor's unexpected and untimely visit, noting Van Ness's bragging and the Major's amiability. The General invited her mother to live at his house in Washington. A dog was hung for stealing sheep. The post office moved from Greenwich.","Ewell (Elizabeth S.) to Rebecca L. Ewell, at Bladensburgh, Prince George's County, Maryland. Postmarked Buckland. 21 May 1838. (On same sheet.)","The letter is directed to Mrs. Ann Gantt, at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia.","This letter is readdressed to Professor Ewell, Prince Edward County, Virginia, with a postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","She writes that vVery important information about Jesse Ewell's papers was found in Manassas, with G. Washington's survey of his land, etc. Letters from Thomas Ewell to Jesse were found.","Stoddert genealogy.","She writes of Bessie Scott's visit and complications of the family estates. The college had Centenniel. She sends him a journal of it.","Elizabeth S. Ewell sends a letter of sympathy on Benjamin's death. She remarks on Lizzie's constant gentleness and is sorry Ben did not write Richard's life.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters. One is written in July from Georgetown. The other was written Noevmber 14 from Georgetown.","Three letters.","An invitation to the marriage ceremony of their daughter.","Enclosure: Post card from Susan Hutchison, at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, to Jesse Ewell, at Ruckersville, Virginia, 8 January 1913. Postmarked 1914.","Dr. Jesse Ewell, Jr. announces the birth of his son Jesse, the sixth Ewell in line of the name and one of three now living. Part of his father's family still lives in Prince William. Grandfather is 84 years old and his wife, 86. Jesse hopes Benjamin will come to visit.","Jesse recounts Revolutionary War memories of his grandfather Ewell and Charles Ewell's friendship with Jefferson from college days.","This letter contains corrections and additions to the Ewell genealogy, going back to the first immigrants and through the Revolutionary War.","Lizinks writes to Ben, requesting him to visit so her engagement can be announced in Tennessee. Her marriage to Captain Scott will also be there, at Richard's house.","Lizinka sends her condolences on Becca's death. She asks if Ben would come to Tennessee for her wedding.","Paul writes of Aunt Nancy's severe illness and his own. He says Mother will send money if Ben needs it to come home. He shares news of friends. It is very cold, snow six to eight feet deep, and many cattle and sheep have died. Aunt Nancy may go to Tennessee for her health. If by carriage, then Paul will drive.","Postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Postscript by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Postscript by A. Gantt","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Enclosure: manuscript copy of an account of T. Ewell with his father.","Harriot Campbell, at Nashville, Tennessee, to Betsy Ewell. 1 July 1838. (On same sheet.)","Lizinka Campbell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Harriot Campbell to her sister, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Thomas Ewell to Harriet Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","Four undated letters, May 28, October 22, November [?], and September 17.","Invitation to a tea.","Additional messages from Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell and from A. Gantt to Benjamin S. Ewell are on this same sheet.","The letter is a request, by order of General Lee, that Ben organize a battalion for the defence of the neck of land between the James and York, as soon as possible.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, with resolutions of the board thanking Benjamin S. Ewell for his services as an instructor and officer of the college.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, to Benjamin S. Ewell, notifying him of his election to the chair of mathematics.","A letter from James L. Kemper, Governor of Virginia, at Richmond, to Harry Heth is on this same sheet.","Three letters.","Two letters.","Two letters.","An invitation to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1877.","Thanks for E's kindness to J. in hospital.","Witty letter that Jenkins needs a wife.","Memories of early days of the War relived at Edisto[?]., present work on plantation.","Sorrow at devastation of War.  S. depressed.","Judge Tucker's death.  Plans for new instructors at College.","Farming very bad in Texas. W, would J. do better on farm in Tidewater and be able to send his sons to school?","Notification of Ewell's appointment to faculty of T.U. as Professor of Math at @$1200/p.a.","Invitation to a soiree dansante to be given in honor of General Joseph E. Johnston. Enclosure: card of admission.","Johnston will visit Ewell soon in Williamsburg.  Is looking for a suitable line of business.","Appreciates E's offer to give E's place [President of College] to J., who cannot accept. J. asked to accept presidency of Express Company being formed. J. may visit Williamsburg in 4 or 5 weeks.","Glad the faculty interested in Mr. Mitchell.  Glad E. thought of defense of Mr. Barbour.","Thanks for the fine map.  Returns surplus College seals.","If E. remembers Henry Watterson, whose letter is enclosed, would he write letter of recommendation?  J's nephew Robert Hughes is a student at William and Mary. J. regrets he could not visit Williamsburg, will try again soon.","Arrangements for J.'s travel to Williamsburg.","Would E. \"lop off\" and correct J's latest (enclosed) literary effort?","Hopes their friendship will continue. \"The young lady\" has two suitors.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Thanks to the Colonel for the photograph.  News of death of friends.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as Professor of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy.","Lamb will send Mrs. Scott a copy of his address about Benjamin S. Ewell which is being printed for the alumni.","L. will support E. + W. in election race of B.T. Crump for city judge of Richmond.","Andy Campbell's possible move to Coastal Survey Depart., where Bache would like to place a man like Ewell.  Gantt worried about cholera in St. Louis.","Reasons Richard Ewell was passed over for higher rank in Army.","Lewis will be happy to have Rebecca travel with them.","Thanks Ewell for information concerning Battle of Vicksburg.  Will use it judiciously in writing about the War.","Thanks for condolences on death of Lowndes' sister.","Child's letter.","L. will give R. grape and current cuttings.  Some of the Jefferson relations including Fanny Manning have been staying with Patsy.","L. thanks E. for genealogical information on Lowndes and Tasker families.  L. would like to buy some of the plate left to E. by Cousin Frank, if she must sell it.","Family news.  From one of the daughters of Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond.","Sadness in the family. Elizabeth's visit to York, Aunt Sarah will treat her kindly. [Note on letter says \"written shortly after the War.\" McIlwain was Mrs. Julia Ewell's brother.]","Mc. hopes his daughter Julia [Mrs. Benjamin Ewell] will become more accustomed to Virginia ways, and more sedate.","Sorry Julia is so discontented with life in the country.  Mc. looking for German farmer for Ewell farm.","Proud of Ben's new post  Suspended Pa. specie payments.","Religious revival in York.","Expecting Ben and Julia to visit York within the month.  Baltimore and Susquehanna [?] Railroad just opened to York.","Lawsuit of Church still not settled.","Mc. has placed order for Ben's carriage.  Upcoming election of Harrison and Tyler.","Mc. unable to visit Ewells at this time.","Hopes William [McIlwain, his son] will be taught by Rev. Balentine until College begins next term.","On same sheet:  Wm. McIlwain to his daughter, Julia McIlwain Ewell.\nMc. family worried E's not writing. Mc's sending \"Republican\" to Julia for news of home.  Deaths of York friends.\nTo Julia: Rules of behavior.","Typhoid prevailing. York economy depressed, needs congressional Tarriff Bille to cure.","Hopes Julia can visit York.  More about Tariff Bill.","Regrets that Julia and baby have gone back to Virginia.  Julia left some clothes, now should Mc's' send them?","Mc. involved in land suit. Either Ann or Sarah [his daughters] might visit Ewells next summer.  York growing fast.","William McIlvain, Julia's brother, has at last arrived and is helping Me. in this (?) doctor's office. Scarlet Fever epidemic seems over. Crops in York very good.","Death of McIlvain's brother. Land suit has gone to Supreme Court, settled in Mc's favor.  Polk's election.","On same sheet: Wm. McIlvain to Julia Ewell. Grandfather's advice on how to live and die. Aunt Julia's son died.\nTo Julia: glad she is reconciled to \"conjugal peace.\"","Glad she might visit York.  Her mother, Julia McIwain Ewell, had been visiting at Oxford.","Has Ewell unjustly accused McIlvain of mistreating Julia in his letters?  Julia has displayed bad temper which should be curbed.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Thanks for Ewell's letter.\nThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Colonel Magruder needs Ewell to send all wagons and drivers from Williamsburg area and send them to Magruder at once.  Needs them to provision the forces.","On same sheet.  Mahan, D.H., West Point, N.Y., to Benjamin S. Ewell, Lexington, Va. \nTazewell: Letter of recommendation of Ewell as Professor of Mathematics at William and Mary.\nEwell: - Offer of aid in getting William and Mary position.","Quotation from Mr. Tazewell's letter about Ewell's interest in post at William and Mary.  Suggests Ewell come to Richmond to talk to Dr. Lyons.","Discussion of engineering of Dam for James River Improvement.","Benjamin Ewell's abilities as professor of mathematics.","Enclosure:  a letter from C.F. Mercer, Washington, to Dr. Thomas Ewell, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va. 1826 May 29.\nSorrow at Dr. Ewell's death, enclosing letter to him anyway.  Offer to help Ewell's sons.\nEnclosure:  Will try to place Ewell's son at West Point, but places filled for current year.","News of York, election news.","The books Ewell sent have arrived and will be given to the subscribers.","Printed circular letter requesting aid for the family of John Hampden Pleasants who was killed in a duel.","Monroe will go to Tennessee to run Richard Ewell's farm] if wages can be settled.","Monroe and his sister will go to Tennessee to work for Richard Ewell.","Committee of Senior Class presents parting gift to Ewell.","M. sends gift \"from nature.\"  Kate Custis has arrived.","Miss Copland, M's teacher, described news of Williamsburg's young ladies.  Toured College with Mr. Ewell, who showed her \"new philosophical apparatus.\"  M. will begin Hebrew and Sanskrit next winter.","News of friends, amateur dramatics sorrow that Richmond is no longer happy as during the War.","M.'s sister carrying on flirtation in Richmond. Latest dress styles.  Is E. to marry Mr. Snead? News of family and friends.","Three letters.","Two letters. \n1862 March 27: Encloses letter for Elizabeth to give to cousin Hubbard. Staying at Sarah Rutherford's house on Grace Street. The young men of Richmond.\n1862 April: M's will remain in Richmond until after the battle. Description of her gentlemen callers.","S. sorry E. could not join them.  Yankees came to Fork Church recently.  Railroad cut off between Hanover and Richmond.","Sorrow at General Richard Ewell's injury. Group of Williamsburg men, including Ben Ewell, ] started for Williamsburg from Richmond under flag of truce but were sent back to Richmond. Sorrow at burning of College (Wm. and M.) and churches. Dr. Garnett has died, great friend of Elizabeth's, Bland Taliaferro and Colemans are staying in Richmond.","Encloses letter to be forwarded to Page and Annie Wilmer in Danville. Williamsburg now has church, telegraph, tri-weekly boat and daily mail! Town full of yankees, but few interesting Confederate soldiers.  News of noted townspeople.","News of friends in Army. Gossip.","Mrs. M. send $3.00 for 12 yards of suitable dress material.","Letter giving his opinion of Benjamin S. Ewell as an instructor.","Invitation to E. to attend Washington and Lee University graduation in June, to stay with Nelsons.  Senator Mills and Hon. John Goode to be speakers.","Peachy sends Ewell's deed and notes to be signed and notarized.  Mrs. Scott [E's daughter Elizabeth] leaving for St. Louis to stay two or three weeks. Suggests changing name of \"Stony Lonesome\" to something more cheerful.  Dr. Coleman dead of cancer.","Has prepared a series of math text books; will have his publishers send copies.","The letterbook copies of seven letters describe dDescribes troop movements around Vicksburg.","Discusses troop movements and progress of the war.","Is glad they are friends; visited New Orleans and other places.","Discusses the scandal at West Point; lists army transfers; went to a \"fish frolic\"; saw a phrenologist; is sobering up the troops with punishment.","Letter dated simply March 24. Has a whist club; hopes to be able to pay him $50 soon.","Asks if she will stay in the house; asks if anything has been done about the administration; asks if anything has been done about the Virginia Estate.","Informs him of the death of cousin Nannie.","Sends a poem; hopes the College is doing well.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Is visiting her aunts and other friends, family, a. And servants have been sick.","Received a letter from Vera Cruz written after the battle;, recounts the description of the battle where Levi was killed; wants Richard to come home.","Received a letter from Ben which she quotes about Mexico and Levi's death.","Is enjoying her visit; family news; is going to D.C.","Asks her to meet Aunt Ewell at Buckland; Lizzie is very comfortable in the convent; asks her to send music.","Thinks farmers from New Jersey will emigrate to Virginia but are worried about malarial fevers; has a ditch making machine.","Gives a description of Toddsberry (sic) in Gloucester County.","Sends copy of order electing him professor of military science.","Arrived safely; has warned Miss Rebecca that her hair is ½ inch long; the orchestra was invited to the country.","Tells her she will not become fossilized now that she is married; went calling New Years Day.","Thanks him for his kind letter.","Sends copy of Harrison Genealogy; Clarence W. Borden may try to correspond with him about Washington.","Letter of recommendation for Mr. Ewell.","Is restoring \"Belle Air\" and asks about its history.","Thanks him for information; asks for more information of the house.","Thanks her for information; asks for more information.","Describes teaching; brother is going to North Carolina; neighborhood news.","Describes her trip; family news.","Visited the Munfords; family gossip; recipe for green tomatoes.","Is in love with Mr. Rives; family news; people in Williamsburg are not very frightened.","Visited Mrs. Gilmer; advises her not to see Mary C. who is a disgrace; wants to drive the Yankees away; is afraid she will not be able to go back to her house.","Five undated letters.","Expects to leave the county.","Four undated letters.","Misses her and Williamsburg.","Two undated letters.","Asks about her recent marriage; will miss her.","Has inquired into laws on pay for soldiers of Mexican War, but does not feel she has a claim.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Is happy she is better.","Will send her trunk.","Enjoyed her letter; kKnows that they can be happy in spite of poverty.","Children are well.","Colonel is better.","Describes a theater party; saw Keene as Richard; describes how she wants her dress made.","Will go on day duty tomorrow; has much surgical work; is going to a costume party dressed as a black person.","Lists her classes; had her first experience in the clinic; is in a gynecological ward.","Saw the fire; is on night duty.","Is surprised that Yankees eat cornmeal; they talk about the war very much.","Comments on Miss Boyson's prize essay on Robert E. Lee; calls for an end to sectional prejudice.","Received the box and money; Dr.Carter knows her family; describes her work.","Glad Mary is better; wants family to visit; will send a prescription.","Will make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.","Has not named the baby yet.","Comments on marriage; is happy; is not fond of Page anymore; baby will be baptized Elizabeth Lowndes.","Asks about old family letters; has gone to town; family has been sick.","Would like to visit; think she has had a miscarriage; doesn't want any more children.","College will be opened next session; railroad will be finished by October.","Has been going through her father's papers and has destroyed most of them.","Did not want her daughter to be a nurse; did not like her fiance; would have become a sister of charity if her father had not survived the war.","Has had only one servant; Bessie is doing well with nursing.","Thanks her for gifts; received a letter from Ewell in which he speaks of war in the Philippines; his house was burned by rebels; Bessie is working at Bellevue; does not like doing housework.","Father is well; Ewell is working in Hampton; Benjamin will be going to college.","Father has been sick; Beverly has been sick; Ewell has an engineering job in Pennsylvania.","Encloses notes about the Bladen family; Page Saunders is visiting.","Father is well; Bessie is keeping house.","Mr. Grigsby has been visiting; Beverly is at the Farm.","Received his letter; Bessie has arrived.","Thanks her for the letter; visited Virginia Beach and Takoma.","Asks about Hattie.","Glad she will visit; family news; discusses Tom's death.","Tom may not be dead; Ben and William visited.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Statement concerning Benjamin Ewell by Thomas H. Williamson on same sheet.","Has heard rumors that he has resigned; is glad he resigned.","Informs him of a job at Hampden Sidney; has been offered a job at VMI.","Has been carrying Madison for years; has employed Dr. John Graham as surgeon.","Asks her to write; will travel to Richmond.","Typed transcription. Original letter is located in the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 4.","Acknowledges receipt of his photograph. (The author is Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)","Invitation to become a member of the society. (The author is Henry V. Goold of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England.)","Would like to publish General Ewell's report of Gettysburg, but it has already been published; will be publishing a series of papers on Gettysburg. The author is J. William Jones of the Southern Historical Society.]","News of the family; tells her to take anything of his that she needs.","Mrs. Caruthers [?] received the power of attourney; decribes the local girls.","Mr. Caruthens [?]) has received the amount; family news; has had an earthquake; Uncle Henry's negroes were sold.","Lucy has been sick; comments on death of Ann's mother; Rrebecca is going to Washington; Mary Jane is doing well in school.","Has had a headache attack; asks her to visit.","Stoddert family genealogy information.","Has been visiting Harriott; is thinking about courting a young lady.","Has inquired about getting a West Point appointment for Richard; hopes he will leave the army and be a lawyer.","Will find success in the cities; advice for success.","Tom has arrived and he will take care of him; wants to buy Negroes.","Got her abusive letter; has unsuccessfully tried preaching. The letter is postmarked Prince Edward Court House.","Richard was visiting and has been sick; mother and Becca and Emma [?] are being disagreeable.","Has been preaching; Dr. Tyler died; Mrs. Ewell disappeared and they feared she had run off with her beau.","Mother has left; other family news.","May be able to lend money; does not want mother to visit.","Sends money; mother is going to Giles County.","Directions for care of home; thinks Richard will stay in the army.","Would like to repair the porch; sends directions for care of home.","Has received few letters; murderer has taken to Taos where he confessed; describes San Juan Day celebration; Kit Carson traveled with him to the Indian settlement.","Tells her she writes unpleasant letters; will sent money; directions for care of home.","Can't bear to be parted from his mother;  –feels her death deeply.","Is leaving New Mexico for home.","Is very appreciative; is planning to rent a small house.","Has been sick; visited the seminary.","Advises her on marriage.","Advises her not to go to Williamsburg in the summer; has some pupils.","Received letter on Becca's death.","Yankees stole almost everything from Mrs. Jones; is teaching; is caring for four widows.","Is living at the same place; is teaching.","The first letter relates that he went to Spring Hill where Richard was sick; Richard and Lizinka died.\nThe second letter is from : Elizabeth S. Ewell to Anne. Sends the copy of W.S.'s letter.","Describes death of Richard and Lizinka.","Discusses wills of Richard and Lizinka.","Campbell has money for the monument; discusses inscriptions on the monument.","Law limits the pensions to the immediate family; discusses religion.","Received the coffee pot, but does not drink coffee; believes the Texas matter is settled; enjoys where he is living; the people treat their horses badly.","Lizzie is having trouble with Ewell; –describes his bad behavior; is going to a dinner.","Is having trouble breathing; has made a new will.","Has been busy with church activities; his cook is getting better; is taking Belladonna.","Did not have any pain last night; does not feel he should be alone, is well fixed where he is.","Thinks it would be better for Ewell to go away to school; has been working hard.","Describes his day at college; describes a family quarrel; wrote a good speech.","Two letters. Has been working very hard. Incomplete.","Copy of the order appointing Benjamin S. Ewell to the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.","Apologizes for his conduct.","Thanks him for the paper on coal.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Postscript by Robertt. Weir.","Offers to help him.","Asks for information on Colonel Ewell.","Comments on training of civil engineers.","Has opening for civil engineers. [Trimble was chief Engineer of Baltimore and Susquehanna RRr. at this time].","Congratulates him on his marriage.","Sympathy letter on death of her son.","Colonel. Ewell is sick in Macon [?]; General Ewell is sick; war news.","Her father, General Richard Ewell, and mother have died.","Laments death of her parents.","Thinks Hattie is her most attractive child; thinks Lily is peculiar; has been happy in Williamsburg; Col. Ewell has been sick.\nAlso:  Brown, Campbell, to B.S. Ewell. Encloses the above letter.","Sends a photograph; children are sick; has not named her baby yet.","Two letters. The first relays the news that the General has died; the children are well. The second letter is from October 1, no year. ,Has been in Canada; has found mention of cousin Ben and the General in Appleton's biographical dictionary; St. Louis fair is in progress.","Two letters. The first letter relays the news that Lizinka is in Madeira; Lily was invited to break fast with the king of Portugal.\nThe second letter, circa January 24, 1872, informs the receipient that Mother died.","Two letters. The first letter congratulates her on her marriage to Mr. Scott; advises her on how to handle a husband. The second letter, undated, relates that the author has been reading various novels; does not like George Eliot; describes her children.","There are windows in church for her mother and father. Incomplete.","The letter is addressed to \"Lizzie\". Congratulates her on her marriage.","Inquires about a type of earth called \"bermuda tripoli.\"","Thanks him for his letters.","Letter of recommendation for B.S. Ewell to serve as Secretary of the Interior.","His article will be appearing; invites B.S.E. to visit.","Thanks him for the gift.","Asks for a description of Upshur's [?]) father.","Encloses a letter from C. Gallup asking about B.S. Ewell.","The letter is from William H. Zinsser, New York. He suggests a town patrol to help combat lack of morale at Fort Eustis.","Hopes he will keep teaching.","Certificate of election to membership in the Society.","Uncle Newton got married.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Describes his trip through the Carolinas.","Is sending pigs to Mrs. Scott.","Farming suggestions.","Enclosure: Three sheets of data on farming.","Recalls the war; asks for a picture.","Is planning to go to Mississippi; has visited Annapolis; Uncle William is no longer practicing law, but is engaged in speculation; the ball was a failure due to the local clergy.","An incomplete letter concerning a professorship at Transylvania University. Asks him to write; offers him a job at Lexington; describes the college.","Describes problems with workers and the College.","Hopes a month at headquarters will improve her health; the Howe [?]) boy has been killed; has received tea from England. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","The letter is addressed \"To Lizzie\". Has been sewing; social news.","Relates war news. The letter is from \"Cousin\" in Richmond.","Glad she has not left Richmond; relates war news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Sarah\" [McIlvainez?].","Father says the College will stay in Williamsburg; drunken soldiers almost grabbed her arm; social news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Thanks her for the photograph; has had visitors; father has John Brown in ambrotype. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Family news. The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","Received her letter; family news; had her photograph taken. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Bessie left for Norfolk. The letter is signed by \"Mama\". [This is not from Julia Ewell. Probably from a member of the Hoge (?) family.]","Has been sick; has a new book; family news; Negroes are going to have a celebration; her dog was lost. The letter is signed \"Maymay\".","Misses Richmond; social news. The letter is signed: \"Bee\".","Sent her bundle to mother; Hattie sent a pickle knife and fork; wishes she would not get married; family news. Enclosure: A pencil drawing entitled \"Mary's new walking dress.\" The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","The letter is signed: \"Charlotte\". The author comments on her marriage; has been sick.","One letter signed: \"Aunt Lizzie\"","2 items. Both letters may have been authored by Harriet Brown Turner. \n[1865?] May 7 Letter: Uncle is a prisoner; Captain Turner is taking the Oath of Allegiance; mother was arrested; war news. \n[1865?] May 24 Letter: Mother is still under arrest; Captain Turner has arrived; family news; war news.","3 items. Unsigned.","Ben has been sick and died. Signed: \"Matilda\".","Sends a draft for $69; has sold or hidden goods to keep them from Yankees.","Tried to cross Confederate lines; suggests that Richard Ewell [?] leave for Bermuda where money will be provided.","This letter may be addressed to Thomas Ewell. Incomplete. The author urges him to go on with his research.","Has been visiting Bettie; had a bad time at Mrs. Temple's; may marry Mr. Temple.","Will use the money Ccousin William sent; Hattie Turner visited.","This letter may be authored by Richard Ewell Scott. The author describes his hotel and the soldiers.","12 items.","Series 2 includes papers from various sources","1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.","1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.","This folder contains a rough draft of an address made before the city council of Williamsburg, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.","Colonel Benjamin S. Ewell,  for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)","1 item.","1 item.","SEE OVERSIZE FILE","The deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.","The deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","1 item.","The letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.","1 item. Copy.","1 item.","Signed John Letcher.","Signed John Letcher.","The letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.","Signed James A. Sedden.","Certificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.","Full title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.","USMA Reunion booklet that includes Necrology with published version of \"Benjamin S. Ewell: A Tribute by E.J. Harvie.\" Pages 11-14.","This folder contains a single document: dDeed given by Elizabeth Ewell, widow of Thomas Ewell, et al., of Prince William County, to Alexander Spotswood Grigsby, covering two lots in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: dDraft of deed granting to Benjamin S. Ewell and William Stoddert her interest in a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia.","A memorandum book of which only 19 pages of the 336 pages were written upon. The book contains data on the Ewell family, including several extracts of letters dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.","An greement of Elizabeth S. Ewell, R. S. Ewell, William Stoddert, and Benjamin S. Ewell to carry into effect the will of Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, that was declared invalid by the court","1 item. The article concerns Richard S. Ewell's part in the second capture of Winchester, with a note by H. S. Turner.","Includes a note by Campbell Brown dated November 6, 1873.","A poem written by Dr. H. M. Clarkson for the Ewell centennial celebration held at Manassas, Virginia, by the Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans.","Plat of a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia, surveyed for Dr. Thomas Ewell, 1821","Apothecary's scales used by Dr. Thomas Ewell, surgeon, in the War of 1812.","Copy of a notice in the National Intelligencer announcing the death of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.","Copy.","This folder contains a single letter. The writer notes that this is an extract from a letter written by President James Madison, at Montpelier, to Mr.Edward Coles.","Broadside. Printed circular letter advertising as a summer resort, Belle-Air in Prince William County, Virginia, the old home of the Ewell family.","1 item. An essay on Williamsburg by Elizabeth L. Scott.","This folder contains 58 items. There are papers in English, Spanish, and Japanese, including a Japanese pencil sketch.","Letter from Marquess, W.H., Mexico, Missouri, to W. Stoddert.","Certified copy. Requesting the governor to procure exemption from military duty for employees of Eubanks and Co.,  \u0026 Co., cotton and wool carders.","This folder contains genealogical information, including some from the Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania.","31\" x 36\" Plat of Ewell property showing \"Old line Bowden, Ewell.\"","Series 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.","Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, which is signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries.  A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries. A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Series 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)","The following letters and papers were originally included in the Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, but have been removed:","Letter from 'V. Jefferson Davis' (Varina Davis) at Beauvoir House, Beauvoir, Mississippi, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1890 January 25. This letter acknowledges receipt of the resolutions passed by the citizens of Williamsburg and James City County on the death of Jefferson Davis. This item has been transferred to the Jefferson Davis Papers.","Letter from Sallie Munford at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth Ewell. 1865 May 16. This item has been transferred to Virginia Cities - Williamsburg Papers (Folder 3).","Mason family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Neale family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Photograph of Malachi Gardner, carriage driver of Benjamin S. Ewell. Undated. As of 5/2016, this item has been transferred to the Portrait File: University Archives Photograph Collection, F and S, Gardiner, Malachi. 2 copies.","The letters below were transferred to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collecton) or the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records:","Letter from Robert Nelson at Shanghai, China, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1873 November 10. This item has been transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 139.","Letter from F. N. Page at Shelby, Gloucester County, Virginia, to Professor Benjamin S. Ewell. 1849 April 18.","Letter from Charles F. Richardson at New York, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 1877 March 9.","An act to establish a normal school at William and Mary College. 1888 March 19.","Resolution of the alumni association of William and Mary College, upon the death of Benjamin S. Ewell. 1894 October 1.","Two pages from a report of Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated.","Page 17 of a report by Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated. The report includes a quotation from an address by former president John Tyler to the alumni of William and Mary on the 166th Anniversary.","Page 19 of a paper concerning the establishment of a normal college. Undated.","Printed card containing information about William and Mary College. Undated.","Black certificate of proficiency. College of William and Mary Papers. Undated.","Braxton (Corbin) to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Buckland, Prince William County, Virginia Postmarked Richmond, Virginia, 1848 July 24","Burgess (B.J.), at Wilmington, North Carolina, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1878 November 2","Craik (James), at Louisville, Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1876 September 2","Davies (Charles), at New York, to John Tyler, 1848 April 27. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Ewell (Benjamin S.), at Washington, D.C., to Charles W. Porter, 1872 February 16","Ewell (Elizabeth) to Richard Ewell, 1858 July 9. (See William and Mary Papers, Folder 17, Item 3.)","Ewell (Elizabeth) to William Stoddert, 1858 July 22","Forest (Douglas F.), at Washington, D.C., to the President and Faculty of William and Mary College, 1879 March 26","Fulton (William), at Salisbury, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, 1872 July 29","Gilman (D. C.), at Baltimore, Maryland, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1887 May 28","Griffin (J. L. C.), at Sharon, Mississippi, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1855 January 12","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1868 January 2","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Edgehill, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1872 June 2","Hall (J. Lesslie), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Mrs. Beverly Scott, at Ewell, James City County, Virginia, 1902 February 7","Hobson (Annie J. W.), at Richmond, to Col. Ewell, 1877 September 29","Hoge (Addison), at Oxford, Mississippi, to Col. B. S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1888 May 18","Hough (M.), at Baltimore, to Elizabeth Ewell, daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, 1859 February 9","Lee (J. F.), at Annapolis, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, 1868 January 23","McLane (Robert), at Washington, D.C., to John Tyler and the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College, Virginia, 1848 April 5. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 82, page 2, item 2m papers relating to the appointment of Benjamin S. Ewell to the chair of mathematics, 1848 April 5-27","Meade (William), at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, to Professor Ewell, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1849 March 18. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 99.","Munford (Maria), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth S. Ewell, 1859 October 30","Munford (Maria) to Elizabeth S. Ewell, undated","Smith (R. McF.), at Nashville, Tennessee, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Ewell, Virginia, 1892 October 3. Original letter was transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 127, page 5.","Sweet (Drew), at Waynesville, Ohio, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1887 May 15","Turner (Harriot S.), at Washington, D.C., to Dr. [?] Wise, undated","Turner (Harriot S.) to Dr. Wise, undated","Watkins (F. N.), at Hampden Sidney College, to the Visitors of the William and Mary University, 1848 April 7. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","West (Robert), at North East P.O., Cecil County, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1866 April 8","Wyatt (Charles B.), at San Francisco, California, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1869 April 8","Letter from unknown person to Elizabeth Ewell, undated. Incomplete. Transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 120.","Letter from R. McCandlish at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. Forwarded to Buckland, Prince William County. 1848 July 15.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 2.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This letter was moved to the College Papers Collection, UA 14, Box 5, Folder 4.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collection, UA 14), Box 9, Folder 2. Place holder sheet in folder states: See: William and Mary College papers. folder 138. A second sheet (acidic paper) notes ...taken from Ewell Papers because it mentions honorary degree of L.L.D. conferred by Wiliam and Mary upon Dr. Craik. On separated materials list.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 6, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","Physical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. (39.4 G29). 1 item.","Physical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. (39.4 G29). 1 item.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Office of the President","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","College of William and Mary. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into six series. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes papers from various sources. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 is the plat of Ewell property. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 is a scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. There are some handwritten poems and many published poems in the newspaper clippings. (Acc. No. 2008.196)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection has been organized into six series.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. 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He was colonel of 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment and later assistant adjutant-general to Joseph E. Johnston. He was president of William and Mary 1854-1888 and died in 1894. He was the brother of Richard Stoddert Ewell, had another brother, William Stoddert, a sister Elizabeth S. Ewell, and a daughter, Elizabeth S. Ewell Scott.","Elizabeth Ewell was the mother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth S. Ewell was the sister of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell was the daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell was the brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Richard S. Ewell was the brother of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Thomas Ewell was the father of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Thomas Ewell was the father of Benjamin S. Ewell.","Elizabeth L. Scott was the granddaughter of Benjamin S. Ewell.","R. Ewell Scott was the grandson of Benjamin S. 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Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, UA 2.06, Box 1, folder 3."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2011.020 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["Acc. 2011.020 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers in the Swem Library Special Collections' University Archives section (UA 2.06). See also a report (entitled 'diary') of B. S. Ewell, April-August 1864 (Box 5, Vol. 5) in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers for a discussion of Williamsburg during the War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the York County Heritage Trust:\n\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFolder 13416\u003c/emph\u003e: Letter from George Hay Kain to Isabel Small, September  11, 1950 and September 14, 1950; reply from Isabel Small to George Kain, September 12, 1957 (Information on McIlwaine family residence location in York and recollections of Gen. Jubal Early's visit to the family at request of Gen. Richard Ewell, Julia's brother-in-law). \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003e-On  microfilm\u003c/emph\u003e: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Republican \u003c/emph\u003enewspaper, April 17, 1839, marriage announcement of Benjamin S. Ewell to Julia Ann McIwaine, April 16, 1839; also bound\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Marriage Index to York Newspapers 1783-1850 \u003c/emph\u003eentry. -\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFolder 19684\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Jere Kere Carl Scrap Book\u003c/emph\u003e, Vol. 19, pg. 160, obituary of Mrs. Julia Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers in the Swem Library Special Collections' University Archives section (UA 2.06). See also a report (entitled 'diary') of B. S. Ewell, April-August 1864 (Box 5, Vol. 5) in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers for a discussion of Williamsburg during the War.","At the York County Heritage Trust:\nFolder 13416: Letter from George Hay Kain to Isabel Small, September  11, 1950 and September 14, 1950; reply from Isabel Small to George Kain, September 12, 1957 (Information on McIlwaine family residence location in York and recollections of Gen. Jubal Early's visit to the family at request of Gen. Richard Ewell, Julia's brother-in-law). -On  microfilm: The Republican newspaper, April 17, 1839, marriage announcement of Benjamin S. Ewell to Julia Ann McIwaine, April 16, 1839; also bound Marriage Index to York Newspapers 1783-1850 entry. -Folder 19684, The Jere Kere Carl Scrap Book, Vol. 19, pg. 160, obituary of Mrs. Julia Ewell."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is in reference to the Revolutionary War claim of the Stoddert family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters, one including a receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote: This letter includes a recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as a professor, signed by five professors at the United States Military Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discusses the death of Aunt Rebecca due to consumption.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe note discusses Aunt Rebecca's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Ewell brought her here with her mother. The army is at Liberty Hills. Campbell Brown joined them for the celebration. The General says the army may go on to Baltimore. \"The Cheryb\" in Richmond may have their leg amputated. General Long, Fitzhugh Lee, Col. Chambliss, Major Gresiand, and Mr. Smith are there. Brown writes of family news and boarding house arrangements. She sends congratulations on General Magruder's victory at Sabine Pass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown writes that Elizabeth's letter arrive with some grom General Ewell and Campbell. The army is moving soon. She had been at Stony Lonesome and the windows and fences are ruined. She relates news of the capture of nine Yankees by Captain Jones, General Gordon's aide-de-camp at Bristol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes more from Brandy Station and is going back to Charlottesville. She notes that General Ewell must get a new artificial leg. The officers' spirits are still high.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Harriot S. Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2. formerly William and Mary College Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA short unsigned letter. On same sheet: Thomas Ewell, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter includes two others: Lizinka Campbell to her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet) and Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (also on the same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter also includes a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter also contains a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship, Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. The recommendation is for Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter advises Colonel Ewell that his state of health makes him unable to serve in the field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrump writes that he needs the exact information on the burning of Richmond tobacco warehouses because of a lawsuit. He asks if General Ewell set the fires at General Lee's order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn invitation to the marriage reception of their daughter. Enclosures: Two cards, Emmy A. Crump and William B. Lightfoot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeas writes of Ewell's promotion to Colonel, 32nd Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. He asks that Ewell please report to Richmond Headquarters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA certificate of dismission of Benjamin S. Ewell from Hampden Sidney Church and of recommendation to the church at Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains an extract from the Register of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe contents of this folder were previously housed in Box 1, folder 3, \"Letters, E\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell writes about life at West Point. He comments on current literature. He spent the last two years studying mathematics, which will never be of any service until he should become a teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell discusses family matters. The lack of funds keeps him from coming home for vacation. He worries over Congress's changes for West Point. He asks her to please make five more shirts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell discusses family matters. Exams are over. Life at West Point is confining. He will not go to Tennessee, but is grateful for the other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell thanks his uncle for his generosity, but doubts Mr. Ewell will let Richard come to him. Ewell will not stay in the Army. There is no chance to advance unless there is a war. He may go into Legal Studies, having ambition and political interest. However, lacking money, he may set other goals. The possibility of war with France might change the situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(This letter is likely dated as 1836. Lizinka was born in 1820 and she is mentioned as being age 16. Ewell was not at West Point, nor Rebecca at Bladensburgh, in 1838.) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin writes he has dispersed some pictures and kept only good ones. They discuss dyspepsia, a \"many headed monster\". The war with France has been averted. Lizinka enjoyed Washington too much for a girl so young. He was riding with a French lady when her horse bolted, which led to rumors of his elopment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes that he cannot reconcile two laws, referring to the raising of troops. He asks which is valid. The answer by S. Bassett French, aide de camp, dated February 26, 1862, on back of sheet, notes that Virginia law rather than Congress is binding. If 20 in a camp reenlist, he will fill in the rest of the numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote: Map of Richmond and vicinity on back of letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin discusses the people and land of east Tennessee, as well as the Lousiana Volunteers. He says the Confederates will win if not greatly outnumbered. Uncle Dick should come; he is needed by the Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell notes that he is glad Uncle Dick didn't come. The Yankees grow bolder, stealing horses. He hopes the Yankees will not be hard on Williamsburg in consequence of new attacks. He writes had Fort Magruder had been where it ought, Williamsburg could have been saved. It its destruction is truly important to success, Ewell would let it go down without a murmur.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes a letter of farewell to his family. Battle is imminent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes of the Battle at Big Black River near Vicksburg. 24,000 men against 75,000 and they were at a disadvantage being hemmed in by the river and a small bridge. He says losing Vicksburg was an unexcusable blunder. He notes that Tennessee regrets their secession. The Yankees are not gentlemen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for genealogy. Didn't know Lowndes Jackson had information. Sends $100. Lizzie hasn't returned to Prince Edward, but may settle near here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are indications this letter may have been written by Richard S. Ewell rather than Benjamin. \nLife as prisoner. Accused of burning Richmond, but mob did it.  No troops and citizens refused to form constabulary. Story of capture.  Louis should live in Europe, especially England. Lyzinka now in Nashville. If she meets General Hitchcock or Auger [?], ask Brown to be put with general officers. Get Ben to find his luggage and grandfather's sword. Though \"the performance of that wretch Booth\" will permit no indulgence for officers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of furniture gone. Thanks for offer of Stony Lonesome furniture, but no place to put it, and future uncertain. Silver left with the Gatts, also blankets and valuables originally left with Wallers. G, glad she hadn't come south.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for letter. Did not apply for pardon at suggestion of Gen. Patrick, U.S.A., not in service of Confederate Army at surrender. Took oath as soon as possible. Humbug. Always a rebel. Means of living now as a plucked chicken is to feathers, but no regrets. Johnston the one great military leader. Thanks Gantt for offer of help.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe and Lizzie will try to attend Harriot's wedding, but short of money.  Advice on marriage to Harriot, hold her tongue which often ridicules, especially as Major Turner is Catholic and she will convert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for glasses. Sorry not to see her in Baltimore.  What will become of the South?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyzinka's poor relations \"pecking\" one, lack of money. People still don't realize condition, or future. If Yankees don't buy land, people will starve. What sort of school is Richard considering?  If 200 young ladies, he will come; but 200 \"wild boys from the West\" will take consideration. Thinks he can find gun and will send it. Received check for $50 from Lyzinka for Lizzie, who will acknowledge it.  If Lyzinka will send $10,000 to rebuild College it would help, for double the amount she can endow a professorship. P.S. re (Waterson's?) editorship of Chattanooga Rebel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses small check.  Things are gloomy, but to be expected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft off stamp on last letter, may cost $50 penalty unless she can put one on. If one of them dies now, loss to survivors irreparable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer duty to get whole family into Purgatory- and out. Thanks for pamphlet from the Priest. Liking for Catholic Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived 2 letters from Becca in Georgetown.  Cousin Francis must be getting better. Fine gentleman and great Christian.  Becca has probably gone to Stony Lonesome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmount to be paid by Richard, like Vicar of Wakefield to get rid of poor relations, but bid higher. Richard's health might be better if he led more active life. See a good doctor. Perhaps go to Europe till political crisis is over. Charges of treason are nonsense. If Negroes restored to former position, love and good will will return. People in Williamsburg not working to support themselves, need Yankees here [near?] for industry. Send notes of campaigns. Lee was not a great leader! Wants data to support this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not go to Hampton-Sydney, but would like to go to a small farm to while away time.  Washington College at the moment carries the day- but not for long; if Lee tried, college will be political, Bessie well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad a book belonging to Georgetown Convent which was carried off with rest of his books, so he is in Convent's debt. Family matters in Tennessee.  Sends $70, please acknowledge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell feels badly over loss of management of farm. Customs of Dutch and English on patrimony. If possible, divide this land now [?] between Harriot and Campbell, keeping a part to live on. Lyzinka can help Dick buy a farm.  Ben Weems has arrived, a sound fellow, but gauche.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn hand bill advertising the College. Richard didn't stay long enough at springs to benefit.  Story of 2 soldiers in Arizona, hell proves to be hotter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures, three clippings of Ewell's letters to the editor of New York Times. 1 clipping titled A Southern College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: Letter from Beverly S. Scott, Jr., at Prince Edward Court House, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 5 September 1867. Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Beverly S. Scott. 9 September 1867\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing letter from Charles McCulloch to Benjamin S. Ewell. 3 October 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell writes that Judge Crump needs the exact statement on General Ewell's orders to burn the tobacco warehouses. Was the order not made twice by General Lee, \"ill judged, harsh, and unnecessary.\" The general's reputation is at stake. Ewell asks how the Scotchmen are working out and would he please come for a month's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"\"The South and Grant\", from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, 20 May 1872\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: Two designs for a cemetery monument.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: A letter from J. H. Richards, at Georgetown College, West Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C. 29 April 1892.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes of Paul's severe illness. If he dies, she deems it God's will and they should not mourn too much. Paul dies on March 26th. The burial will be in Centreville. This is more reason than ever for Ben to take care of his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRebecca Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.) Elizabeth S. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes that Richard may bring Liz down from Washington to Brookgrove. She mentions his attempts to get an appointment. Richard saved them all from a mad dog. She goes on to discuss family matters and neighbors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth asks why Benjamin has not written or come. She wanted the pleasure of making his clothes. Tom left for Buckland, Tennessee alone. He has grown so much he was taken for Richard. Richard does well at West Point, but will probably not win Lizinka.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth sends family news. Richard does well at West Point. Tom arrived in Nashville. Tasker is joining a law office in Marlboro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript signed: R. L. E.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter includes a check drawn by Elizabeth Ewell payable to Benjamin S. Ewell dated September 18, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth asks Benjamin about his married life and their new home. She tells him to look after William most carefully, buy him a bed and enough bedding. Ben's horse is well looked after. Mrs. Smith is most unwell after her daughter's death from a malignant fever. She cannot visit him because of lack of money, but such a visit would be good for Liz.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by A. Gantt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth sends family news. Ben Gantt is in Norfolk for three months while the Delaware is refitted. She requests that Ben ask him to visit. The Temperance Movement is growing. Richard will lose out of his United States Bank notes since the bank failed. She includes Lord Byron's view of Catholicism. Richard is at the garrison in Arkansas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes that Becca will come if really needed, but the trip is too expensive for pleasure, nor can Elizabeth afford to visit herself. Mr. Fowler's failure caused a loss of $20,000 by Mrs. Pront, his sister. Family members may also have money with him. She mentions that Liz is giving out a Miraculous Medal and is too wrapped up in the Catholic Church. Friends send gifts of fruit tree and garden supplies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by R. L. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth reports news that Levi was killed in the Mexican War. His mother is heartbroken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Elizabeth) to her daughter, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters.\nThe first letter is undated: Becca carried home by mistake Ben's letter to E. William escorted Becca home, after preaching twice. Richard's letter of 12/31/51, he is leaving Fort Defiance. Liz to teach Mrs. Hunter's children. Aunt Becca will visit E. in spring. Many deaths at the Johnsons. Regrets new carriage. Love to Julia and Liz. Tenants' rents in arrears, accounts confused. Grandfather Stoddert's war payments being looked into by Mr. Lowndes.  Tasker has sent draft for $114. \nThe second letter on the same sheet is dated March 4, 1852: Glad Ben will come for her, can also go to Jackson to see Aunts, Tom, etc.  Convention being held at Methodist Church. Judge Tucker most important at Convention. Harriet Stoddert graduates soon, may come to Jackson with E. and B.  2p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth S. Ewell, to her father, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHattie Turner to her cousin, William Stoddert. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. L. Prout to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizzie visiting Mrs. Vest. John Petit recently married. Seeming \"ghostly noises\" at President's House, Lizzie's health improved.  E's current reading. Ben building a house at the farm.  He would not have bought so much land, but thought Richard would join him in the purchase, \"the property\" (Stony Lonesome) was fairly purchased by E's husband.  Marstellars [?] tried to get some of W's money from his agent, but failed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived much mail. Liz had bad fall on way to a pupil, is to be regular organist at her church. Harriet sent copies of commendation letters for Richard's application as Paymaster from Gen. Scott etc.  Cannot establish her relationship to the Craigheads, but Campbells and Browns related to them. William has too many jobs, as postmaster are his letters mailed free?  Did he receive music Sally Edloe [?] sent?  Lizzy very popular. Deaths and illnesses in neighborhood.  Governor wants to reorganize the College, Ben can get professorship elsewhere if necessary. Aunt Stoddert wants him to come to Oxford University, Mississippi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Wilmer preached today. His baby son died recently of cholera.  Commencement party. Mr. Miner's fatal bath. Excited meeting of the College Board.  Gov. Wise wanted to make all State colleges subsidiary to U.Va., but was defeated, but Law School abolished to everyone's regret. Ben resigned the Presidency, will take Chair of Mathematics.  Changes in faculty. Ben wanted William at the College as assistant in Languages and Chaplain, but turned down by Mr. Smead, the Professor of Language. Governor Wise wants to move College to Accomac for sea air.  Liz borrowed money from Ben and has not repaid it, please take it from her money for land. Becca sent ill-tempered letter from Washington.  Lyzinka wants E. to join her in Tennessee, but trip too expensive.  E's fondness for one student.  Letter from Liz, Campbell Brown graduated with high honors, Mr. Beale's board money stolen.\n14 September, 1858, 4p.: Ben resigned Presidency, not his professorship.  If he leaves President's House, the farm house near completion, on 500 acres.  E. does not want to make W's improvements at Stony Lonesome, and Ben needs the money, on which W. could pay taxes.  Mrs. Lowndes died last week to cancer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends $25, get receipt. Powells tried to charge E. twice for furniture, but receipt proved her right. Lizzie goes to York soon. Mr. Stringfellow stopped on way to Gloucester. Please send stationary, black gloves, silk for aprons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters. One mutilated.\nLizzy's over her illness, only a sore throat, but Julia has a cold.  Richard sent 2 articles from New Orleans, about soldiers on parade.  House guests there, Julia gets papers from York, but no letter. Complains about everyone. Tom will send $300, but where? Tom at Jackson on Oct. 2, had some trouble with his men.  Dr. Maxley [?] dined there, will take Julia riding today… Explained diagram of Monterey to Lizzy.\nWilliam came home last night. Heavy rains, W. much shaken by Tom's death.  Julia received political paper. Hopes Lizzy is well. Found the handkerchief L. was hemming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters, both addressed to Cadet B.S. Ewell, Military Academy  at West Point.  \nLetter dated April 17: Paul's death. Aunt Harriet wants Ben to study law in Tennessee. Tom dislikes math. Dick is lazy. Why has Ben's standing gone down in natural philosophy? Must work harder.\nLetter dated April 29: Low much will it cost for Ben to come home?  Paul's death hastened by saving travel money and walking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard not being kept from school by Elizabeth, but of his own accord.  Tom studying Vergil. Liz staying at Brookgrove until Ben can bring her home. Aunt Rebecca has been visiting for 2 or 3 weeks, Aunt Campbell wants to leave Philadelphia, but Lyzinka's progress on harp prevents her, Mrs. Rutledge bringing her 2 daughters to the Point, Becca's health bad, Liz offered $350 to teach in Bladensburg, but declined.  Copy of letter to Mr. Taliaferro [?] about her son's application to the Point.  \nRichard (Thursday) has been enjoying school all week.  \nRichard's postscript. Local News.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen too slow in answering letters, paying too much postage, many government men turned out of office. Her memories of bad management in Washington. Sally Lee (Cockerille?) now boarding with Elizabeth at $82 [?] a year. Debating society being spoiled by certain members. Pinched for money. Elizabeth has 13 students.  \nRebecca corrects her mother's misinformation.  Becca is principal teacher, but unpaid.\nRebecca Ewell to Benjamin Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. \nFebruary 26: Elizabeth's illness, Greenville schoolboys unruly. Liz going to Georgetown. Quotation from Adam's papers.  Tom's poem on Mexican War.\nAugust 2: Mr. Slaughter (minister) now preaching, Aunt Nancy's illness. Ben a lady's man, in love with all 5 Berkley daughters. Tasker, also in love. Making slip covers, Tom reading Sallust.  \nPostscript to Ben: E. has paid part due gales + seaton, don't overpay them. The Tyler's kindness. Trip to Springs would help Aunt Nancy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. \nThe first letter discusses nNews of farm. Tom studying Caesar, soon on Virgil, Mr. Meeder his tutor. Current books. News of neighbors.  Liz may stay with Aunt Nancy, as long as she pleases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth S. Ewell to her sister, Rebecca L. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo items. The letter care of Mr. Kingman: Why didn't R. arrive when she said?  Mrs. Kingman welcome to visit. Tom back from Nashville. Ben has moved to Dr. Gardiner's. News of neighbors.\nThe second letter is care of Mr. Prout, May 5: Aunt C. and Lyzinka coming in July.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew clothes being made or purchased. Visits to neighbors, going with Aunt Nancy to see about money owed by government to Benjamin Stoddert Estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to have Becca leave, did Richard then go directly to Baltimore?  Visitors. William enjoying Hampden Sydney. Negroes there restless.  Carriage being mended. Becca must collect rent, as bills are due.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn unsigned letter to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe musical score of a cotillion and a postscript by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell, appear on the same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes of Virginia's death. Her mother is ill with dysentary ever since. She tells Benjamin he can come home if he wants. She discusses Virginia's funeral.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen's letter unsatisfactory. Miss Bankhead's and Dad's wedding. Horses at farm not too satisfactory, but carriage too expensive.  Gen. Scott's defense from Court Martial. Letter from Uncle William, he will take care of Tom's education. Aunt C. wants Tom to stay in Nashville, where Lyzinka teaches him French. Elizabeth hopes he is now settled in Jackson, Nashville is too luxurious. New Minister has come, stayed one night at Ewell's, wants to board there, girls going to several weddings and parties. Postscript by Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth writes that returning from her ride, she found Rosanna and Fanney Ewell waiting for her. She discusses General Van Ness and Major Minor's unexpected and untimely visit, noting Van Ness's bragging and the Major's amiability. The General invited her mother to live at his house in Washington. A dog was hung for stealing sheep. The post office moved from Greenwich.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell (Elizabeth S.) to Rebecca L. Ewell, at Bladensburgh, Prince George's County, Maryland. Postmarked Buckland. 21 May 1838. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is directed to Mrs. Ann Gantt, at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is readdressed to Professor Ewell, Prince Edward County, Virginia, with a postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes that vVery important information about Jesse Ewell's papers was found in Manassas, with G. Washington's survey of his land, etc. Letters from Thomas Ewell to Jesse were found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoddert genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes of Bessie Scott's visit and complications of the family estates. The college had Centenniel. She sends him a journal of it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth S. Ewell sends a letter of sympathy on Benjamin's death. She remarks on Lizzie's constant gentleness and is sorry Ben did not write Richard's life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters. One is written in July from Georgetown. The other was written Noevmber 14 from Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn invitation to the marriage ceremony of their daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: Post card from Susan Hutchison, at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, to Jesse Ewell, at Ruckersville, Virginia, 8 January 1913. Postmarked 1914.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Jesse Ewell, Jr. announces the birth of his son Jesse, the sixth Ewell in line of the name and one of three now living. Part of his father's family still lives in Prince William. Grandfather is 84 years old and his wife, 86. Jesse hopes Benjamin will come to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse recounts Revolutionary War memories of his grandfather Ewell and Charles Ewell's friendship with Jefferson from college days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains corrections and additions to the Ewell genealogy, going back to the first immigrants and through the Revolutionary War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizinks writes to Ben, requesting him to visit so her engagement can be announced in Tennessee. Her marriage to Captain Scott will also be there, at Richard's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizinka sends her condolences on Becca's death. She asks if Ben would come to Tennessee for her wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul writes of Aunt Nancy's severe illness and his own. He says Mother will send money if Ben needs it to come home. He shares news of friends. It is very cold, snow six to eight feet deep, and many cattle and sheep have died. Aunt Nancy may go to Tennessee for her health. If by carriage, then Paul will drive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by Elizabeth Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by Elizabeth S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePostscript by A. Gantt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: manuscript copy of an account of T. Ewell with his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriot Campbell, at Nashville, Tennessee, to Betsy Ewell. 1 July 1838. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizinka Campbell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriot Campbell to her sister, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Ewell to Harriet Stoddert. (On same sheet.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour undated letters, May 28, October 22, November [?], and September 17.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to a tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional messages from Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell and from A. Gantt to Benjamin S. Ewell are on this same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is a request, by order of General Lee, that Ben organize a battalion for the defence of the neck of land between the James and York, as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, with resolutions of the board thanking Benjamin S. Ewell for his services as an instructor and officer of the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, to Benjamin S. Ewell, notifying him of his election to the chair of mathematics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from James L. Kemper, Governor of Virginia, at Richmond, to Harry Heth is on this same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn invitation to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1877.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for E's kindness to J. in hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWitty letter that Jenkins needs a wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemories of early days of the War relived at Edisto[?]., present work on plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorrow at devastation of War.  S. depressed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Tucker's death.  Plans for new instructors at College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming very bad in Texas. W, would J. do better on farm in Tidewater and be able to send his sons to school?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotification of Ewell's appointment to faculty of T.U. as Professor of Math at @$1200/p.a.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to a soiree dansante to be given in honor of General Joseph E. Johnston. Enclosure: card of admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohnston will visit Ewell soon in Williamsburg.  Is looking for a suitable line of business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciates E's offer to give E's place [President of College] to J., who cannot accept. J. asked to accept presidency of Express Company being formed. J. may visit Williamsburg in 4 or 5 weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad the faculty interested in Mr. Mitchell.  Glad E. thought of defense of Mr. Barbour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for the fine map.  Returns surplus College seals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIf E. remembers Henry Watterson, whose letter is enclosed, would he write letter of recommendation?  J's nephew Robert Hughes is a student at William and Mary. J. regrets he could not visit Williamsburg, will try again soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for J.'s travel to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould E. \"lop off\" and correct J's latest (enclosed) literary effort?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes their friendship will continue. \"The young lady\" has two suitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks to the Colonel for the photograph.  News of death of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as Professor of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLamb will send Mrs. Scott a copy of his address about Benjamin S. Ewell which is being printed for the alumni.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. will support E. + W. in election race of B.T. Crump for city judge of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAndy Campbell's possible move to Coastal Survey Depart., where Bache would like to place a man like Ewell.  Gantt worried about cholera in St. Louis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReasons Richard Ewell was passed over for higher rank in Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLewis will be happy to have Rebecca travel with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Ewell for information concerning Battle of Vicksburg.  Will use it judiciously in writing about the War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for condolences on death of Lowndes' sister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChild's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. will give R. grape and current cuttings.  Some of the Jefferson relations including Fanny Manning have been staying with Patsy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. thanks E. for genealogical information on Lowndes and Tasker families.  L. would like to buy some of the plate left to E. by Cousin Frank, if she must sell it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.  From one of the daughters of Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSadness in the family. Elizabeth's visit to York, Aunt Sarah will treat her kindly. [Note on letter says \"written shortly after the War.\" McIlwain was Mrs. Julia Ewell's brother.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. hopes his daughter Julia [Mrs. Benjamin Ewell] will become more accustomed to Virginia ways, and more sedate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry Julia is so discontented with life in the country.  Mc. looking for German farmer for Ewell farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProud of Ben's new post  Suspended Pa. specie payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious revival in York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpecting Ben and Julia to visit York within the month.  Baltimore and Susquehanna [?] Railroad just opened to York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit of Church still not settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. has placed order for Ben's carriage.  Upcoming election of Harrison and Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. unable to visit Ewells at this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes William [McIlwain, his son] will be taught by Rev. Balentine until College begins next term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet:  Wm. McIlwain to his daughter, Julia McIlwain Ewell.\nMc. family worried E's not writing. Mc's sending \"Republican\" to Julia for news of home.  Deaths of York friends.\nTo Julia: Rules of behavior.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyphoid prevailing. York economy depressed, needs congressional Tarriff Bille to cure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes Julia can visit York.  More about Tariff Bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that Julia and baby have gone back to Virginia.  Julia left some clothes, now should Mc's' send them?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMc. involved in land suit. Either Ann or Sarah [his daughters] might visit Ewells next summer.  York growing fast.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam McIlvain, Julia's brother, has at last arrived and is helping Me. in this (?) doctor's office. Scarlet Fever epidemic seems over. Crops in York very good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of McIlvain's brother. Land suit has gone to Supreme Court, settled in Mc's favor.  Polk's election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet: Wm. McIlvain to Julia Ewell. Grandfather's advice on how to live and die. Aunt Julia's son died.\nTo Julia: glad she is reconciled to \"conjugal peace.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad she might visit York.  Her mother, Julia McIwain Ewell, had been visiting at Oxford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas Ewell unjustly accused McIlvain of mistreating Julia in his letters?  Julia has displayed bad temper which should be curbed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Thanks for Ewell's letter.\nThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Magruder needs Ewell to send all wagons and drivers from Williamsburg area and send them to Magruder at once.  Needs them to provision the forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn same sheet.  Mahan, D.H., West Point, N.Y., to Benjamin S. Ewell, Lexington, Va. \nTazewell: Letter of recommendation of Ewell as Professor of Mathematics at William and Mary.\nEwell: - Offer of aid in getting William and Mary position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuotation from Mr. Tazewell's letter about Ewell's interest in post at William and Mary.  Suggests Ewell come to Richmond to talk to Dr. Lyons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of engineering of Dam for James River Improvement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ewell's abilities as professor of mathematics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure:  a letter from C.F. Mercer, Washington, to Dr. Thomas Ewell, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va. 1826 May 29.\nSorrow at Dr. Ewell's death, enclosing letter to him anyway.  Offer to help Ewell's sons.\nEnclosure:  Will try to place Ewell's son at West Point, but places filled for current year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of York, election news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe books Ewell sent have arrived and will be given to the subscribers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted circular letter requesting aid for the family of John Hampden Pleasants who was killed in a duel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonroe will go to Tennessee to run Richard Ewell's farm] if wages can be settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonroe and his sister will go to Tennessee to work for Richard Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommittee of Senior Class presents parting gift to Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eM. sends gift \"from nature.\"  Kate Custis has arrived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiss Copland, M's teacher, described news of Williamsburg's young ladies.  Toured College with Mr. Ewell, who showed her \"new philosophical apparatus.\"  M. will begin Hebrew and Sanskrit next winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends, amateur dramatics sorrow that Richmond is no longer happy as during the War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eM.'s sister carrying on flirtation in Richmond. Latest dress styles.  Is E. to marry Mr. Snead? News of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. \n1862 March 27: Encloses letter for Elizabeth to give to cousin Hubbard. Staying at Sarah Rutherford's house on Grace Street. The young men of Richmond.\n1862 April: M's will remain in Richmond until after the battle. Description of her gentlemen callers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. sorry E. could not join them.  Yankees came to Fork Church recently.  Railroad cut off between Hanover and Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorrow at General Richard Ewell's injury. Group of Williamsburg men, including Ben Ewell, ] started for Williamsburg from Richmond under flag of truce but were sent back to Richmond. Sorrow at burning of College (Wm. and M.) and churches. Dr. Garnett has died, great friend of Elizabeth's, Bland Taliaferro and Colemans are staying in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter to be forwarded to Page and Annie Wilmer in Danville. Williamsburg now has church, telegraph, tri-weekly boat and daily mail! Town full of yankees, but few interesting Confederate soldiers.  News of noted townspeople.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends in Army. Gossip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. M. send $3.00 for 12 yards of suitable dress material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter giving his opinion of Benjamin S. Ewell as an instructor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to E. to attend Washington and Lee University graduation in June, to stay with Nelsons.  Senator Mills and Hon. John Goode to be speakers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeachy sends Ewell's deed and notes to be signed and notarized.  Mrs. Scott [E's daughter Elizabeth] leaving for St. Louis to stay two or three weeks. Suggests changing name of \"Stony Lonesome\" to something more cheerful.  Dr. Coleman dead of cancer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas prepared a series of math text books; will have his publishers send copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letterbook copies of seven letters describe dDescribes troop movements around Vicksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses troop movements and progress of the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs glad they are friends; visited New Orleans and other places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the scandal at West Point; lists army transfers; went to a \"fish frolic\"; saw a phrenologist; is sobering up the troops with punishment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter dated simply March 24. Has a whist club; hopes to be able to pay him $50 soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks if she will stay in the house; asks if anything has been done about the administration; asks if anything has been done about the Virginia Estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him of the death of cousin Nannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a poem; hopes the College is doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs visiting her aunts and other friends, family, a. And servants have been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived a letter from Vera Cruz written after the battle;, recounts the description of the battle where Levi was killed; wants Richard to come home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived a letter from Ben which she quotes about Mexico and Levi's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs enjoying her visit; family news; is going to D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to meet Aunt Ewell at Buckland; Lizzie is very comfortable in the convent; asks her to send music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks farmers from New Jersey will emigrate to Virginia but are worried about malarial fevers; has a ditch making machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a description of Toddsberry (sic) in Gloucester County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends copy of order electing him professor of military science.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived safely; has warned Miss Rebecca that her hair is ½ inch long; the orchestra was invited to the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells her she will not become fossilized now that she is married; went calling New Years Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his kind letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends copy of Harrison Genealogy; Clarence W. Borden may try to correspond with him about Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Mr. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs restoring \"Belle Air\" and asks about its history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for information; asks for more information of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for information; asks for more information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes teaching; brother is going to North Carolina; neighborhood news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisited the Munfords; family gossip; recipe for green tomatoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs in love with Mr. Rives; family news; people in Williamsburg are not very frightened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisited Mrs. Gilmer; advises her not to see Mary C. who is a disgrace; wants to drive the Yankees away; is afraid she will not be able to go back to her house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpects to leave the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses her and Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo undated letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her recent marriage; will miss her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas inquired into laws on pay for soldiers of Mexican War, but does not feel she has a claim.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy she is better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill send her trunk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnjoyed her letter; kKnows that they can be happy in spite of poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel is better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a theater party; saw Keene as Richard; describes how she wants her dress made.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill go on day duty tomorrow; has much surgical work; is going to a costume party dressed as a black person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists her classes; had her first experience in the clinic; is in a gynecological ward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSaw the fire; is on night duty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs surprised that Yankees eat cornmeal; they talk about the war very much.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on Miss Boyson's prize essay on Robert E. Lee; calls for an end to sectional prejudice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived the box and money; Dr.Carter knows her family; describes her work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad Mary is better; wants family to visit; will send a prescription.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not named the baby yet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on marriage; is happy; is not fond of Page anymore; baby will be baptized Elizabeth Lowndes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about old family letters; has gone to town; family has been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to visit; think she has had a miscarriage; doesn't want any more children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollege will be opened next session; railroad will be finished by October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been going through her father's papers and has destroyed most of them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not want her daughter to be a nurse; did not like her fiance; would have become a sister of charity if her father had not survived the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had only one servant; Bessie is doing well with nursing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for gifts; received a letter from Ewell in which he speaks of war in the Philippines; his house was burned by rebels; Bessie is working at Bellevue; does not like doing housework.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather is well; Ewell is working in Hampton; Benjamin will be going to college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather has been sick; Beverly has been sick; Ewell has an engineering job in Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses notes about the Bladen family; Page Saunders is visiting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather is well; Bessie is keeping house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Grigsby has been visiting; Beverly is at the Farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his letter; Bessie has arrived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the letter; visited Virginia Beach and Takoma.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about Hattie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad she will visit; family news; discusses Tom's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom may not be dead; Ben and William visited.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Statement concerning Benjamin Ewell by Thomas H. Williamson on same sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard rumors that he has resigned; is glad he resigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him of a job at Hampden Sidney; has been offered a job at VMI.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been carrying Madison for years; has employed Dr. John Graham as surgeon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to write; will travel to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped transcription. Original letter is located in the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of his photograph. (The author is Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to become a member of the society. (The author is Henry V. Goold of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to publish General Ewell's report of Gettysburg, but it has already been published; will be publishing a series of papers on Gettysburg. The author is J. William Jones of the Southern Historical Society.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the family; tells her to take anything of his that she needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Caruthers [?] received the power of attourney; decribes the local girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Caruthens [?]) has received the amount; family news; has had an earthquake; Uncle Henry's negroes were sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy has been sick; comments on death of Ann's mother; Rrebecca is going to Washington; Mary Jane is doing well in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had a headache attack; asks her to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoddert family genealogy information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been visiting Harriott; is thinking about courting a young lady.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas inquired about getting a West Point appointment for Richard; hopes he will leave the army and be a lawyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill find success in the cities; advice for success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom has arrived and he will take care of him; wants to buy Negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGot her abusive letter; has unsuccessfully tried preaching. The letter is postmarked Prince Edward Court House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard was visiting and has been sick; mother and Becca and Emma [?] are being disagreeable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been preaching; Dr. Tyler died; Mrs. Ewell disappeared and they feared she had run off with her beau.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother has left; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay be able to lend money; does not want mother to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends money; mother is going to Giles County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for care of home; thinks Richard will stay in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to repair the porch; sends directions for care of home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received few letters; murderer has taken to Taos where he confessed; describes San Juan Day celebration; Kit Carson traveled with him to the Indian settlement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells her she writes unpleasant letters; will sent money; directions for care of home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't bear to be parted from his mother;  –feels her death deeply.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs leaving New Mexico for home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs very appreciative; is planning to rent a small house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been sick; visited the seminary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises her on marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises her not to go to Williamsburg in the summer; has some pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter on Becca's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYankees stole almost everything from Mrs. Jones; is teaching; is caring for four widows.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs living at the same place; is teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letter relates that he went to Spring Hill where Richard was sick; Richard and Lizinka died.\nThe second letter is from : Elizabeth S. Ewell to Anne. Sends the copy of W.S.'s letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes death of Richard and Lizinka.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses wills of Richard and Lizinka.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell has money for the monument; discusses inscriptions on the monument.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw limits the pensions to the immediate family; discusses religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived the coffee pot, but does not drink coffee; believes the Texas matter is settled; enjoys where he is living; the people treat their horses badly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLizzie is having trouble with Ewell; –describes his bad behavior; is going to a dinner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs having trouble breathing; has made a new will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been busy with church activities; his cook is getting better; is taking Belladonna.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not have any pain last night; does not feel he should be alone, is well fixed where he is.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks it would be better for Ewell to go away to school; has been working hard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his day at college; describes a family quarrel; wrote a good speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. Has been working very hard. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the order appointing Benjamin S. Ewell to the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for his conduct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the paper on coal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Postscript by Robertt. Weir.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to help him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for information on Colonel Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on training of civil engineers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas opening for civil engineers. [Trimble was chief Engineer of Baltimore and Susquehanna RRr. at this time].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates him on his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSympathy letter on death of her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel. Ewell is sick in Macon [?]; General Ewell is sick; war news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer father, General Richard Ewell, and mother have died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaments death of her parents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks Hattie is her most attractive child; thinks Lily is peculiar; has been happy in Williamsburg; Col. Ewell has been sick.\nAlso:  Brown, Campbell, to B.S. Ewell. Encloses the above letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a photograph; children are sick; has not named her baby yet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. The first relays the news that the General has died; the children are well. The second letter is from October 1, no year. ,Has been in Canada; has found mention of cousin Ben and the General in Appleton's biographical dictionary; St. Louis fair is in progress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. The first letter relays the news that Lizinka is in Madeira; Lily was invited to break fast with the king of Portugal.\nThe second letter, circa January 24, 1872, informs the receipient that Mother died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters. The first letter congratulates her on her marriage to Mr. Scott; advises her on how to handle a husband. The second letter, undated, relates that the author has been reading various novels; does not like George Eliot; describes her children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are windows in church for her mother and father. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"Lizzie\". Congratulates her on her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a type of earth called \"bermuda tripoli.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for his letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of recommendation for B.S. Ewell to serve as Secretary of the Interior.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis article will be appearing; invites B.S.E. to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the gift.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for a description of Upshur's [?]) father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter from C. Gallup asking about B.S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is from William H. Zinsser, New York. He suggests a town patrol to help combat lack of morale at Fort Eustis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes he will keep teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of election to membership in the Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUncle Newton got married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his trip through the Carolinas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sending pigs to Mrs. Scott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming suggestions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: Three sheets of data on farming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecalls the war; asks for a picture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs planning to go to Mississippi; has visited Annapolis; Uncle William is no longer practicing law, but is engaged in speculation; the ball was a failure due to the local clergy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn incomplete letter concerning a professorship at Transylvania University. Asks him to write; offers him a job at Lexington; describes the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes problems with workers and the College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes a month at headquarters will improve her health; the Howe [?]) boy has been killed; has received tea from England. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed \"To Lizzie\". Has been sewing; social news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates war news. The letter is from \"Cousin\" in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad she has not left Richmond; relates war news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Sarah\" [McIlvainez?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather says the College will stay in Williamsburg; drunken soldiers almost grabbed her arm; social news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the photograph; has had visitors; father has John Brown in ambrotype. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. The letter is signed \"Mamie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived her letter; family news; had her photograph taken. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBessie left for Norfolk. The letter is signed by \"Mama\". [This is not from Julia Ewell. Probably from a member of the Hoge (?) family.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been sick; has a new book; family news; Negroes are going to have a celebration; her dog was lost. The letter is signed \"Maymay\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses Richmond; social news. The letter is signed: \"Bee\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent her bundle to mother; Hattie sent a pickle knife and fork; wishes she would not get married; family news. Enclosure: A pencil drawing entitled \"Mary's new walking dress.\" The letter is signed \"Mamie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is signed: \"Charlotte\". The author comments on her marriage; has been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter signed: \"Aunt Lizzie\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Both letters may have been authored by Harriet Brown Turner. \n[1865?] May 7 Letter: Uncle is a prisoner; Captain Turner is taking the Oath of Allegiance; mother was arrested; war news. \n[1865?] May 24 Letter: Mother is still under arrest; Captain Turner has arrived; family news; war news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items. Unsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen has been sick and died. Signed: \"Matilda\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a draft for $69; has sold or hidden goods to keep them from Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTried to cross Confederate lines; suggests that Richard Ewell [?] leave for Bermuda where money will be provided.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter may be addressed to Thomas Ewell. Incomplete. The author urges him to go on with his research.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been visiting Bettie; had a bad time at Mrs. Temple's; may marry Mr. Temple.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill use the money Ccousin William sent; Hattie Turner visited.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter may be authored by Richard Ewell Scott. The author describes his hotel and the soldiers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes papers from various sources\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a rough draft of an address made before the city council of Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Benjamin S. Ewell,  for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSEE OVERSIZE FILE\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned John Letcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned John Letcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned James A. Sedden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUSMA Reunion booklet that includes Necrology with published version of \"Benjamin S. Ewell: A Tribute by E.J. Harvie.\" Pages 11-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single document: dDeed given by Elizabeth Ewell, widow of Thomas Ewell, et al., of Prince William County, to Alexander Spotswood Grigsby, covering two lots in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single document: dDraft of deed granting to Benjamin S. Ewell and William Stoddert her interest in a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA memorandum book of which only 19 pages of the 336 pages were written upon. The book contains data on the Ewell family, including several extracts of letters dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn greement of Elizabeth S. Ewell, R. S. Ewell, William Stoddert, and Benjamin S. Ewell to carry into effect the will of Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, that was declared invalid by the court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. The article concerns Richard S. Ewell's part in the second capture of Winchester, with a note by H. S. Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a note by Campbell Brown dated November 6, 1873.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA poem written by Dr. H. M. Clarkson for the Ewell centennial celebration held at Manassas, Virginia, by the Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia, surveyed for Dr. Thomas Ewell, 1821\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApothecary's scales used by Dr. Thomas Ewell, surgeon, in the War of 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a notice in the National Intelligencer announcing the death of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a single letter. The writer notes that this is an extract from a letter written by President James Madison, at Montpelier, to Mr.Edward Coles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside. Printed circular letter advertising as a summer resort, Belle-Air in Prince William County, Virginia, the old home of the Ewell family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. An essay on Williamsburg by Elizabeth L. Scott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains 58 items. There are papers in English, Spanish, and Japanese, including a Japanese pencil sketch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Marquess, W.H., Mexico, Missouri, to W. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertified copy. Requesting the governor to procure exemption from military duty for employees of Eubanks and Co.,  \u0026amp; Co., cotton and wool carders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains genealogical information, including some from the Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31\" x 36\" Plat of Ewell property showing \"Old line Bowden, Ewell.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEwell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, which is signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries.  A few loose notes about births and deaths.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. 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contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Series 1 includes letters arranged alpabetically by writer. A uniform entry has been adopted for each name, and persons of the same name have been identified and distinguished from each other by indicating their relationship to Benjamin S. Ewell or other persons. For example, the entry Brown (Harriot S.) is used for letters signed H. S. Brown and Hattie, and the entry Ewell (Elizabeth), daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, is used for letters signed Lizzy Ewell or simply Lizzy.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","The letter is in reference to the Revolutionary War claim of the Stoddert family.","Two letters, one including a receipt.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Note: This letter includes a recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as a professor, signed by five professors at the United States Military Academy.","The letters discusses the death of Aunt Rebecca due to consumption.","The note discusses Aunt Rebecca's death.","General Ewell brought her here with her mother. The army is at Liberty Hills. Campbell Brown joined them for the celebration. The General says the army may go on to Baltimore. \"The Cheryb\" in Richmond may have their leg amputated. General Long, Fitzhugh Lee, Col. Chambliss, Major Gresiand, and Mr. Smith are there. Brown writes of family news and boarding house arrangements. She sends congratulations on General Magruder's victory at Sabine Pass.","Brown writes that Elizabeth's letter arrive with some grom General Ewell and Campbell. The army is moving soon. She had been at Stony Lonesome and the windows and fences are ruined. She relates news of the capture of nine Yankees by Captain Jones, General Gordon's aide-de-camp at Bristol.","She writes more from Brandy Station and is going back to Charlottesville. She notes that General Ewell must get a new artificial leg. The officers' spirits are still high.","See also Harriot S. Turner.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2. formerly William and Mary College Papers.","A short unsigned letter. On same sheet: Thomas Ewell, to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","This letter includes two others: Lizinka Campbell to her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet) and Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (also on the same sheet.)","This letter also includes a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","This letter also contains a message from Thomas Ewell to Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell (on the same sheet).","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship, Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. The recommendation is for Chair of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.","The letter advises Colonel Ewell that his state of health makes him unable to serve in the field.","2 copies.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers.","Crump writes that he needs the exact information on the burning of Richmond tobacco warehouses because of a lawsuit. He asks if General Ewell set the fires at General Lee's order.","An invitation to the marriage reception of their daughter. Enclosures: Two cards, Emmy A. Crump and William B. Lightfoot.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Deas writes of Ewell's promotion to Colonel, 32nd Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. He asks that Ewell please report to Richmond Headquarters.","A certificate of dismission of Benjamin S. Ewell from Hampden Sidney Church and of recommendation to the church at Lexington, Virginia.","On same sheet.","This letter contains an extract from the Register of the Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1850.","The contents of this folder were previously housed in Box 1, folder 3, \"Letters, E\".","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Benjamin Ewell writes about life at West Point. He comments on current literature. He spent the last two years studying mathematics, which will never be of any service until he should become a teacher.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. The lack of funds keeps him from coming home for vacation. He worries over Congress's changes for West Point. He asks her to please make five more shirts.","Benjamin Ewell discusses family matters. Exams are over. Life at West Point is confining. He will not go to Tennessee, but is grateful for the other.","Benjamin Ewell thanks his uncle for his generosity, but doubts Mr. Ewell will let Richard come to him. Ewell will not stay in the Army. There is no chance to advance unless there is a war. He may go into Legal Studies, having ambition and political interest. However, lacking money, he may set other goals. The possibility of war with France might change the situation.","(This letter is likely dated as 1836. Lizinka was born in 1820 and she is mentioned as being age 16. Ewell was not at West Point, nor Rebecca at Bladensburgh, in 1838.)","Benjamin writes he has dispersed some pictures and kept only good ones. They discuss dyspepsia, a \"many headed monster\". The war with France has been averted. Lizinka enjoyed Washington too much for a girl so young. He was riding with a French lady when her horse bolted, which led to rumors of his elopment.","Ewell writes that he cannot reconcile two laws, referring to the raising of troops. He asks which is valid. The answer by S. Bassett French, aide de camp, dated February 26, 1862, on back of sheet, notes that Virginia law rather than Congress is binding. If 20 in a camp reenlist, he will fill in the rest of the numbers.","Note: Map of Richmond and vicinity on back of letter.","Benjamin discusses the people and land of east Tennessee, as well as the Lousiana Volunteers. He says the Confederates will win if not greatly outnumbered. Uncle Dick should come; he is needed by the Army.","Ewell notes that he is glad Uncle Dick didn't come. The Yankees grow bolder, stealing horses. He hopes the Yankees will not be hard on Williamsburg in consequence of new attacks. He writes had Fort Magruder had been where it ought, Williamsburg could have been saved. It its destruction is truly important to success, Ewell would let it go down without a murmur.","Ewell writes a letter of farewell to his family. Battle is imminent.","Ewell writes of the Battle at Big Black River near Vicksburg. 24,000 men against 75,000 and they were at a disadvantage being hemmed in by the river and a small bridge. He says losing Vicksburg was an unexcusable blunder. He notes that Tennessee regrets their secession. The Yankees are not gentlemen.","Thanks for genealogy. Didn't know Lowndes Jackson had information. Sends $100. Lizzie hasn't returned to Prince Edward, but may settle near here.","There are indications this letter may have been written by Richard S. Ewell rather than Benjamin. \nLife as prisoner. Accused of burning Richmond, but mob did it.  No troops and citizens refused to form constabulary. Story of capture.  Louis should live in Europe, especially England. Lyzinka now in Nashville. If she meets General Hitchcock or Auger [?], ask Brown to be put with general officers. Get Ben to find his luggage and grandfather's sword. Though \"the performance of that wretch Booth\" will permit no indulgence for officers.","Most of furniture gone. Thanks for offer of Stony Lonesome furniture, but no place to put it, and future uncertain. Silver left with the Gatts, also blankets and valuables originally left with Wallers. G, glad she hadn't come south.","Thanks for letter. Did not apply for pardon at suggestion of Gen. Patrick, U.S.A., not in service of Confederate Army at surrender. Took oath as soon as possible. Humbug. Always a rebel. Means of living now as a plucked chicken is to feathers, but no regrets. Johnston the one great military leader. Thanks Gantt for offer of help.","He and Lizzie will try to attend Harriot's wedding, but short of money.  Advice on marriage to Harriot, hold her tongue which often ridicules, especially as Major Turner is Catholic and she will convert.","Thanks for glasses. Sorry not to see her in Baltimore.  What will become of the South?","Lyzinka's poor relations \"pecking\" one, lack of money. People still don't realize condition, or future. If Yankees don't buy land, people will starve. What sort of school is Richard considering?  If 200 young ladies, he will come; but 200 \"wild boys from the West\" will take consideration. Thinks he can find gun and will send it. Received check for $50 from Lyzinka for Lizzie, who will acknowledge it.  If Lyzinka will send $10,000 to rebuild College it would help, for double the amount she can endow a professorship. P.S. re (Waterson's?) editorship of Chattanooga Rebel.","Encloses small check.  Things are gloomy, but to be expected.","Left off stamp on last letter, may cost $50 penalty unless she can put one on. If one of them dies now, loss to survivors irreparable.","Her duty to get whole family into Purgatory- and out. Thanks for pamphlet from the Priest. Liking for Catholic Church.","Received 2 letters from Becca in Georgetown.  Cousin Francis must be getting better. Fine gentleman and great Christian.  Becca has probably gone to Stony Lonesome.","Amount to be paid by Richard, like Vicar of Wakefield to get rid of poor relations, but bid higher. Richard's health might be better if he led more active life. See a good doctor. Perhaps go to Europe till political crisis is over. Charges of treason are nonsense. If Negroes restored to former position, love and good will will return. People in Williamsburg not working to support themselves, need Yankees here [near?] for industry. Send notes of campaigns. Lee was not a great leader! Wants data to support this.","Will not go to Hampton-Sydney, but would like to go to a small farm to while away time.  Washington College at the moment carries the day- but not for long; if Lee tried, college will be political, Bessie well.","Had a book belonging to Georgetown Convent which was carried off with rest of his books, so he is in Convent's debt. Family matters in Tennessee.  Sends $70, please acknowledge.","Campbell feels badly over loss of management of farm. Customs of Dutch and English on patrimony. If possible, divide this land now [?] between Harriot and Campbell, keeping a part to live on. Lyzinka can help Dick buy a farm.  Ben Weems has arrived, a sound fellow, but gauche.","On hand bill advertising the College. Richard didn't stay long enough at springs to benefit.  Story of 2 soldiers in Arizona, hell proves to be hotter.","Enclosures, three clippings of Ewell's letters to the editor of New York Times. 1 clipping titled A Southern College.","Enclosures: Letter from Beverly S. Scott, Jr., at Prince Edward Court House, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 5 September 1867. Letter from Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Beverly S. Scott. 9 September 1867","Enclosing letter from Charles McCulloch to Benjamin S. Ewell. 3 October 1870.","Ewell writes that Judge Crump needs the exact statement on General Ewell's orders to burn the tobacco warehouses. Was the order not made twice by General Lee, \"ill judged, harsh, and unnecessary.\" The general's reputation is at stake. Ewell asks how the Scotchmen are working out and would he please come for a month's visit.","\"\"The South and Grant\", from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, 20 May 1872","Enclosures: Two designs for a cemetery monument.","Enclosure: A letter from J. H. Richards, at Georgetown College, West Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C. 29 April 1892.","Elizabeth writes of Paul's severe illness. If he dies, she deems it God's will and they should not mourn too much. Paul dies on March 26th. The burial will be in Centreville. This is more reason than ever for Ben to take care of his health.","Rebecca Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.) Elizabeth S. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes that Richard may bring Liz down from Washington to Brookgrove. She mentions his attempts to get an appointment. Richard saved them all from a mad dog. She goes on to discuss family matters and neighbors.","Elizabeth asks why Benjamin has not written or come. She wanted the pleasure of making his clothes. Tom left for Buckland, Tennessee alone. He has grown so much he was taken for Richard. Richard does well at West Point, but will probably not win Lizinka.","Elizabeth sends family news. Richard does well at West Point. Tom arrived in Nashville. Tasker is joining a law office in Marlboro.","Postscript signed: R. L. E.","The letter includes a check drawn by Elizabeth Ewell payable to Benjamin S. Ewell dated September 18, 1838.","Elizabeth asks Benjamin about his married life and their new home. She tells him to look after William most carefully, buy him a bed and enough bedding. Ben's horse is well looked after. Mrs. Smith is most unwell after her daughter's death from a malignant fever. She cannot visit him because of lack of money, but such a visit would be good for Liz.","Postscript by A. Gantt.","Elizabeth sends family news. Ben Gantt is in Norfolk for three months while the Delaware is refitted. She requests that Ben ask him to visit. The Temperance Movement is growing. Richard will lose out of his United States Bank notes since the bank failed. She includes Lord Byron's view of Catholicism. Richard is at the garrison in Arkansas.","Elizabeth writes that Becca will come if really needed, but the trip is too expensive for pleasure, nor can Elizabeth afford to visit herself. Mr. Fowler's failure caused a loss of $20,000 by Mrs. Pront, his sister. Family members may also have money with him. She mentions that Liz is giving out a Miraculous Medal and is too wrapped up in the Catholic Church. Friends send gifts of fruit tree and garden supplies.","Postscript by R. L. Ewell.","Elizabeth reports news that Levi was killed in the Mexican War. His mother is heartbroken.","Ewell (Elizabeth) to her daughter, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet","An unsigned, undated letter appears on the same sheet.","Two undated letters.\nThe first letter is undated: Becca carried home by mistake Ben's letter to E. William escorted Becca home, after preaching twice. Richard's letter of 12/31/51, he is leaving Fort Defiance. Liz to teach Mrs. Hunter's children. Aunt Becca will visit E. in spring. Many deaths at the Johnsons. Regrets new carriage. Love to Julia and Liz. Tenants' rents in arrears, accounts confused. Grandfather Stoddert's war payments being looked into by Mr. Lowndes.  Tasker has sent draft for $114. \nThe second letter on the same sheet is dated March 4, 1852: Glad Ben will come for her, can also go to Jackson to see Aunts, Tom, etc.  Convention being held at Methodist Church. Judge Tucker most important at Convention. Harriet Stoddert graduates soon, may come to Jackson with E. and B.  2p.","Elizabeth S. Ewell, to her father, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Hattie Turner to her cousin, William Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","A. L. Prout to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Lizzie visiting Mrs. Vest. John Petit recently married. Seeming \"ghostly noises\" at President's House, Lizzie's health improved.  E's current reading. Ben building a house at the farm.  He would not have bought so much land, but thought Richard would join him in the purchase, \"the property\" (Stony Lonesome) was fairly purchased by E's husband.  Marstellars [?] tried to get some of W's money from his agent, but failed.","Received much mail. Liz had bad fall on way to a pupil, is to be regular organist at her church. Harriet sent copies of commendation letters for Richard's application as Paymaster from Gen. Scott etc.  Cannot establish her relationship to the Craigheads, but Campbells and Browns related to them. William has too many jobs, as postmaster are his letters mailed free?  Did he receive music Sally Edloe [?] sent?  Lizzy very popular. Deaths and illnesses in neighborhood.  Governor wants to reorganize the College, Ben can get professorship elsewhere if necessary. Aunt Stoddert wants him to come to Oxford University, Mississippi.","Mr. Wilmer preached today. His baby son died recently of cholera.  Commencement party. Mr. Miner's fatal bath. Excited meeting of the College Board.  Gov. Wise wanted to make all State colleges subsidiary to U.Va., but was defeated, but Law School abolished to everyone's regret. Ben resigned the Presidency, will take Chair of Mathematics.  Changes in faculty. Ben wanted William at the College as assistant in Languages and Chaplain, but turned down by Mr. Smead, the Professor of Language. Governor Wise wants to move College to Accomac for sea air.  Liz borrowed money from Ben and has not repaid it, please take it from her money for land. Becca sent ill-tempered letter from Washington.  Lyzinka wants E. to join her in Tennessee, but trip too expensive.  E's fondness for one student.  Letter from Liz, Campbell Brown graduated with high honors, Mr. Beale's board money stolen.\n14 September, 1858, 4p.: Ben resigned Presidency, not his professorship.  If he leaves President's House, the farm house near completion, on 500 acres.  E. does not want to make W's improvements at Stony Lonesome, and Ben needs the money, on which W. could pay taxes.  Mrs. Lowndes died last week to cancer.","Sends $25, get receipt. Powells tried to charge E. twice for furniture, but receipt proved her right. Lizzie goes to York soon. Mr. Stringfellow stopped on way to Gloucester. Please send stationary, black gloves, silk for aprons.","Two undated letters. One mutilated.\nLizzy's over her illness, only a sore throat, but Julia has a cold.  Richard sent 2 articles from New Orleans, about soldiers on parade.  House guests there, Julia gets papers from York, but no letter. Complains about everyone. Tom will send $300, but where? Tom at Jackson on Oct. 2, had some trouble with his men.  Dr. Maxley [?] dined there, will take Julia riding today… Explained diagram of Monterey to Lizzy.\nWilliam came home last night. Heavy rains, W. much shaken by Tom's death.  Julia received political paper. Hopes Lizzy is well. Found the handkerchief L. was hemming.","Two undated letters, both addressed to Cadet B.S. Ewell, Military Academy  at West Point.  \nLetter dated April 17: Paul's death. Aunt Harriet wants Ben to study law in Tennessee. Tom dislikes math. Dick is lazy. Why has Ben's standing gone down in natural philosophy? Must work harder.\nLetter dated April 29: Low much will it cost for Ben to come home?  Paul's death hastened by saving travel money and walking.","Richard not being kept from school by Elizabeth, but of his own accord.  Tom studying Vergil. Liz staying at Brookgrove until Ben can bring her home. Aunt Rebecca has been visiting for 2 or 3 weeks, Aunt Campbell wants to leave Philadelphia, but Lyzinka's progress on harp prevents her, Mrs. Rutledge bringing her 2 daughters to the Point, Becca's health bad, Liz offered $350 to teach in Bladensburg, but declined.  Copy of letter to Mr. Taliaferro [?] about her son's application to the Point.  \nRichard (Thursday) has been enjoying school all week.  \nRichard's postscript. Local News.","Ben too slow in answering letters, paying too much postage, many government men turned out of office. Her memories of bad management in Washington. Sally Lee (Cockerille?) now boarding with Elizabeth at $82 [?] a year. Debating society being spoiled by certain members. Pinched for money. Elizabeth has 13 students.  \nRebecca corrects her mother's misinformation.  Becca is principal teacher, but unpaid.\nRebecca Ewell to Benjamin Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters.","Two letters. \nFebruary 26: Elizabeth's illness, Greenville schoolboys unruly. Liz going to Georgetown. Quotation from Adam's papers.  Tom's poem on Mexican War.\nAugust 2: Mr. Slaughter (minister) now preaching, Aunt Nancy's illness. Ben a lady's man, in love with all 5 Berkley daughters. Tasker, also in love. Making slip covers, Tom reading Sallust.  \nPostscript to Ben: E. has paid part due gales + seaton, don't overpay them. The Tyler's kindness. Trip to Springs would help Aunt Nancy.","Two letters. \nThe first letter discusses nNews of farm. Tom studying Caesar, soon on Virgil, Mr. Meeder his tutor. Current books. News of neighbors.  Liz may stay with Aunt Nancy, as long as she pleases.","Elizabeth S. Ewell to her sister, Rebecca L. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two items. The letter care of Mr. Kingman: Why didn't R. arrive when she said?  Mrs. Kingman welcome to visit. Tom back from Nashville. Ben has moved to Dr. Gardiner's. News of neighbors.\nThe second letter is care of Mr. Prout, May 5: Aunt C. and Lyzinka coming in July.","New clothes being made or purchased. Visits to neighbors, going with Aunt Nancy to see about money owed by government to Benjamin Stoddert Estate.","Sorry to have Becca leave, did Richard then go directly to Baltimore?  Visitors. William enjoying Hampden Sydney. Negroes there restless.  Carriage being mended. Becca must collect rent, as bills are due.","An unsigned letter to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","The musical score of a cotillion and a postscript by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell, appear on the same sheet.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Nancy [ ? ]. (On same sheet.)","Elizabeth writes of Virginia's death. Her mother is ill with dysentary ever since. She tells Benjamin he can come home if he wants. She discusses Virginia's funeral.","Ben's letter unsatisfactory. Miss Bankhead's and Dad's wedding. Horses at farm not too satisfactory, but carriage too expensive.  Gen. Scott's defense from Court Martial. Letter from Uncle William, he will take care of Tom's education. Aunt C. wants Tom to stay in Nashville, where Lyzinka teaches him French. Elizabeth hopes he is now settled in Jackson, Nashville is too luxurious. New Minister has come, stayed one night at Ewell's, wants to board there, girls going to several weddings and parties. Postscript by Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell.","Elizabeth writes that returning from her ride, she found Rosanna and Fanney Ewell waiting for her. She discusses General Van Ness and Major Minor's unexpected and untimely visit, noting Van Ness's bragging and the Major's amiability. The General invited her mother to live at his house in Washington. A dog was hung for stealing sheep. The post office moved from Greenwich.","Ewell (Elizabeth S.) to Rebecca L. Ewell, at Bladensburgh, Prince George's County, Maryland. Postmarked Buckland. 21 May 1838. (On same sheet.)","The letter is directed to Mrs. Ann Gantt, at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia.","This letter is readdressed to Professor Ewell, Prince Edward County, Virginia, with a postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","She writes that vVery important information about Jesse Ewell's papers was found in Manassas, with G. Washington's survey of his land, etc. Letters from Thomas Ewell to Jesse were found.","Stoddert genealogy.","She writes of Bessie Scott's visit and complications of the family estates. The college had Centenniel. She sends him a journal of it.","Elizabeth S. Ewell sends a letter of sympathy on Benjamin's death. She remarks on Lizzie's constant gentleness and is sorry Ben did not write Richard's life.","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Two undated letters. One is written in July from Georgetown. The other was written Noevmber 14 from Georgetown.","Three letters.","An invitation to the marriage ceremony of their daughter.","Enclosure: Post card from Susan Hutchison, at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, to Jesse Ewell, at Ruckersville, Virginia, 8 January 1913. Postmarked 1914.","Dr. Jesse Ewell, Jr. announces the birth of his son Jesse, the sixth Ewell in line of the name and one of three now living. Part of his father's family still lives in Prince William. Grandfather is 84 years old and his wife, 86. Jesse hopes Benjamin will come to visit.","Jesse recounts Revolutionary War memories of his grandfather Ewell and Charles Ewell's friendship with Jefferson from college days.","This letter contains corrections and additions to the Ewell genealogy, going back to the first immigrants and through the Revolutionary War.","Lizinks writes to Ben, requesting him to visit so her engagement can be announced in Tennessee. Her marriage to Captain Scott will also be there, at Richard's house.","Lizinka sends her condolences on Becca's death. She asks if Ben would come to Tennessee for her wedding.","Paul writes of Aunt Nancy's severe illness and his own. He says Mother will send money if Ben needs it to come home. He shares news of friends. It is very cold, snow six to eight feet deep, and many cattle and sheep have died. Aunt Nancy may go to Tennessee for her health. If by carriage, then Paul will drive.","Postscript by Elizabeth Ewell.","Postscript by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","Postscript by A. Gantt","Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Enclosure: manuscript copy of an account of T. Ewell with his father.","Harriot Campbell, at Nashville, Tennessee, to Betsy Ewell. 1 July 1838. (On same sheet.)","Lizinka Campbell to Rebecca Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Harriot Campbell to her sister, Elizabeth Ewell. (On same sheet.)","Thomas Ewell to Harriet Stoddert. (On same sheet.)","Four undated letters, May 28, October 22, November [?], and September 17.","Invitation to a tea.","Additional messages from Mrs. Elizabeth Ewell to her son, Benjamin S. Ewell and from A. Gantt to Benjamin S. Ewell are on this same sheet.","The letter is a request, by order of General Lee, that Ben organize a battalion for the defence of the neck of land between the James and York, as soon as possible.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, with resolutions of the board thanking Benjamin S. Ewell for his services as an instructor and officer of the college.","Letter from F. N. Watkins, secretary, to Benjamin S. Ewell, notifying him of his election to the chair of mathematics.","A letter from James L. Kemper, Governor of Virginia, at Richmond, to Harry Heth is on this same sheet.","Three letters.","Two letters.","Two letters.","An invitation to the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1877.","Thanks for E's kindness to J. in hospital.","Witty letter that Jenkins needs a wife.","Memories of early days of the War relived at Edisto[?]., present work on plantation.","Sorrow at devastation of War.  S. depressed.","Judge Tucker's death.  Plans for new instructors at College.","Farming very bad in Texas. W, would J. do better on farm in Tidewater and be able to send his sons to school?","Notification of Ewell's appointment to faculty of T.U. as Professor of Math at @$1200/p.a.","Invitation to a soiree dansante to be given in honor of General Joseph E. Johnston. Enclosure: card of admission.","Johnston will visit Ewell soon in Williamsburg.  Is looking for a suitable line of business.","Appreciates E's offer to give E's place [President of College] to J., who cannot accept. J. asked to accept presidency of Express Company being formed. J. may visit Williamsburg in 4 or 5 weeks.","Glad the faculty interested in Mr. Mitchell.  Glad E. thought of defense of Mr. Barbour.","Thanks for the fine map.  Returns surplus College seals.","If E. remembers Henry Watterson, whose letter is enclosed, would he write letter of recommendation?  J's nephew Robert Hughes is a student at William and Mary. J. regrets he could not visit Williamsburg, will try again soon.","Arrangements for J.'s travel to Williamsburg.","Would E. \"lop off\" and correct J's latest (enclosed) literary effort?","Hopes their friendship will continue. \"The young lady\" has two suitors.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Thanks to the Colonel for the photograph.  News of death of friends.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell as Professor of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy.","Lamb will send Mrs. Scott a copy of his address about Benjamin S. Ewell which is being printed for the alumni.","L. will support E. + W. in election race of B.T. Crump for city judge of Richmond.","Andy Campbell's possible move to Coastal Survey Depart., where Bache would like to place a man like Ewell.  Gantt worried about cholera in St. Louis.","Reasons Richard Ewell was passed over for higher rank in Army.","Lewis will be happy to have Rebecca travel with them.","Thanks Ewell for information concerning Battle of Vicksburg.  Will use it judiciously in writing about the War.","Thanks for condolences on death of Lowndes' sister.","Child's letter.","L. will give R. grape and current cuttings.  Some of the Jefferson relations including Fanny Manning have been staying with Patsy.","L. thanks E. for genealogical information on Lowndes and Tasker families.  L. would like to buy some of the plate left to E. by Cousin Frank, if she must sell it.","Family news.  From one of the daughters of Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond.","Sadness in the family. Elizabeth's visit to York, Aunt Sarah will treat her kindly. [Note on letter says \"written shortly after the War.\" McIlwain was Mrs. Julia Ewell's brother.]","Mc. hopes his daughter Julia [Mrs. Benjamin Ewell] will become more accustomed to Virginia ways, and more sedate.","Sorry Julia is so discontented with life in the country.  Mc. looking for German farmer for Ewell farm.","Proud of Ben's new post  Suspended Pa. specie payments.","Religious revival in York.","Expecting Ben and Julia to visit York within the month.  Baltimore and Susquehanna [?] Railroad just opened to York.","Lawsuit of Church still not settled.","Mc. has placed order for Ben's carriage.  Upcoming election of Harrison and Tyler.","Mc. unable to visit Ewells at this time.","Hopes William [McIlwain, his son] will be taught by Rev. Balentine until College begins next term.","On same sheet:  Wm. McIlwain to his daughter, Julia McIlwain Ewell.\nMc. family worried E's not writing. Mc's sending \"Republican\" to Julia for news of home.  Deaths of York friends.\nTo Julia: Rules of behavior.","Typhoid prevailing. York economy depressed, needs congressional Tarriff Bille to cure.","Hopes Julia can visit York.  More about Tariff Bill.","Regrets that Julia and baby have gone back to Virginia.  Julia left some clothes, now should Mc's' send them?","Mc. involved in land suit. Either Ann or Sarah [his daughters] might visit Ewells next summer.  York growing fast.","William McIlvain, Julia's brother, has at last arrived and is helping Me. in this (?) doctor's office. Scarlet Fever epidemic seems over. Crops in York very good.","Death of McIlvain's brother. Land suit has gone to Supreme Court, settled in Mc's favor.  Polk's election.","On same sheet: Wm. McIlvain to Julia Ewell. Grandfather's advice on how to live and die. Aunt Julia's son died.\nTo Julia: glad she is reconciled to \"conjugal peace.\"","Glad she might visit York.  Her mother, Julia McIwain Ewell, had been visiting at Oxford.","Has Ewell unjustly accused McIlvain of mistreating Julia in his letters?  Julia has displayed bad temper which should be curbed.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Thanks for Ewell's letter.\nThis item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Colonel Magruder needs Ewell to send all wagons and drivers from Williamsburg area and send them to Magruder at once.  Needs them to provision the forces.","On same sheet.  Mahan, D.H., West Point, N.Y., to Benjamin S. Ewell, Lexington, Va. \nTazewell: Letter of recommendation of Ewell as Professor of Mathematics at William and Mary.\nEwell: - Offer of aid in getting William and Mary position.","Quotation from Mr. Tazewell's letter about Ewell's interest in post at William and Mary.  Suggests Ewell come to Richmond to talk to Dr. Lyons.","Discussion of engineering of Dam for James River Improvement.","Benjamin Ewell's abilities as professor of mathematics.","Enclosure:  a letter from C.F. Mercer, Washington, to Dr. Thomas Ewell, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Va. 1826 May 29.\nSorrow at Dr. Ewell's death, enclosing letter to him anyway.  Offer to help Ewell's sons.\nEnclosure:  Will try to place Ewell's son at West Point, but places filled for current year.","News of York, election news.","The books Ewell sent have arrived and will be given to the subscribers.","Printed circular letter requesting aid for the family of John Hampden Pleasants who was killed in a duel.","Monroe will go to Tennessee to run Richard Ewell's farm] if wages can be settled.","Monroe and his sister will go to Tennessee to work for Richard Ewell.","Committee of Senior Class presents parting gift to Ewell.","M. sends gift \"from nature.\"  Kate Custis has arrived.","Miss Copland, M's teacher, described news of Williamsburg's young ladies.  Toured College with Mr. Ewell, who showed her \"new philosophical apparatus.\"  M. will begin Hebrew and Sanskrit next winter.","News of friends, amateur dramatics sorrow that Richmond is no longer happy as during the War.","M.'s sister carrying on flirtation in Richmond. Latest dress styles.  Is E. to marry Mr. Snead? News of family and friends.","Three letters.","Two letters. \n1862 March 27: Encloses letter for Elizabeth to give to cousin Hubbard. Staying at Sarah Rutherford's house on Grace Street. The young men of Richmond.\n1862 April: M's will remain in Richmond until after the battle. Description of her gentlemen callers.","S. sorry E. could not join them.  Yankees came to Fork Church recently.  Railroad cut off between Hanover and Richmond.","Sorrow at General Richard Ewell's injury. Group of Williamsburg men, including Ben Ewell, ] started for Williamsburg from Richmond under flag of truce but were sent back to Richmond. Sorrow at burning of College (Wm. and M.) and churches. Dr. Garnett has died, great friend of Elizabeth's, Bland Taliaferro and Colemans are staying in Richmond.","Encloses letter to be forwarded to Page and Annie Wilmer in Danville. Williamsburg now has church, telegraph, tri-weekly boat and daily mail! Town full of yankees, but few interesting Confederate soldiers.  News of noted townspeople.","News of friends in Army. Gossip.","Mrs. M. send $3.00 for 12 yards of suitable dress material.","Letter giving his opinion of Benjamin S. Ewell as an instructor.","Invitation to E. to attend Washington and Lee University graduation in June, to stay with Nelsons.  Senator Mills and Hon. John Goode to be speakers.","Peachy sends Ewell's deed and notes to be signed and notarized.  Mrs. Scott [E's daughter Elizabeth] leaving for St. Louis to stay two or three weeks. Suggests changing name of \"Stony Lonesome\" to something more cheerful.  Dr. Coleman dead of cancer.","Has prepared a series of math text books; will have his publishers send copies.","The letterbook copies of seven letters describe dDescribes troop movements around Vicksburg.","Discusses troop movements and progress of the war.","Is glad they are friends; visited New Orleans and other places.","Discusses the scandal at West Point; lists army transfers; went to a \"fish frolic\"; saw a phrenologist; is sobering up the troops with punishment.","Letter dated simply March 24. Has a whist club; hopes to be able to pay him $50 soon.","Asks if she will stay in the house; asks if anything has been done about the administration; asks if anything has been done about the Virginia Estate.","Informs him of the death of cousin Nannie.","Sends a poem; hopes the College is doing well.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Is visiting her aunts and other friends, family, a. And servants have been sick.","Received a letter from Vera Cruz written after the battle;, recounts the description of the battle where Levi was killed; wants Richard to come home.","Received a letter from Ben which she quotes about Mexico and Levi's death.","Is enjoying her visit; family news; is going to D.C.","Asks her to meet Aunt Ewell at Buckland; Lizzie is very comfortable in the convent; asks her to send music.","Thinks farmers from New Jersey will emigrate to Virginia but are worried about malarial fevers; has a ditch making machine.","Gives a description of Toddsberry (sic) in Gloucester County.","Sends copy of order electing him professor of military science.","Arrived safely; has warned Miss Rebecca that her hair is ½ inch long; the orchestra was invited to the country.","Tells her she will not become fossilized now that she is married; went calling New Years Day.","Thanks him for his kind letter.","Sends copy of Harrison Genealogy; Clarence W. Borden may try to correspond with him about Washington.","Letter of recommendation for Mr. Ewell.","Is restoring \"Belle Air\" and asks about its history.","Thanks him for information; asks for more information of the house.","Thanks her for information; asks for more information.","Describes teaching; brother is going to North Carolina; neighborhood news.","Describes her trip; family news.","Visited the Munfords; family gossip; recipe for green tomatoes.","Is in love with Mr. Rives; family news; people in Williamsburg are not very frightened.","Visited Mrs. Gilmer; advises her not to see Mary C. who is a disgrace; wants to drive the Yankees away; is afraid she will not be able to go back to her house.","Five undated letters.","Expects to leave the county.","Four undated letters.","Misses her and Williamsburg.","Two undated letters.","Asks about her recent marriage; will miss her.","Has inquired into laws on pay for soldiers of Mexican War, but does not feel she has a claim.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Is happy she is better.","Will send her trunk.","Enjoyed her letter; kKnows that they can be happy in spite of poverty.","Children are well.","Colonel is better.","Describes a theater party; saw Keene as Richard; describes how she wants her dress made.","Will go on day duty tomorrow; has much surgical work; is going to a costume party dressed as a black person.","Lists her classes; had her first experience in the clinic; is in a gynecological ward.","Saw the fire; is on night duty.","Is surprised that Yankees eat cornmeal; they talk about the war very much.","Comments on Miss Boyson's prize essay on Robert E. Lee; calls for an end to sectional prejudice.","Received the box and money; Dr.Carter knows her family; describes her work.","Glad Mary is better; wants family to visit; will send a prescription.","Will make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.","Has not named the baby yet.","Comments on marriage; is happy; is not fond of Page anymore; baby will be baptized Elizabeth Lowndes.","Asks about old family letters; has gone to town; family has been sick.","Would like to visit; think she has had a miscarriage; doesn't want any more children.","College will be opened next session; railroad will be finished by October.","Has been going through her father's papers and has destroyed most of them.","Did not want her daughter to be a nurse; did not like her fiance; would have become a sister of charity if her father had not survived the war.","Has had only one servant; Bessie is doing well with nursing.","Thanks her for gifts; received a letter from Ewell in which he speaks of war in the Philippines; his house was burned by rebels; Bessie is working at Bellevue; does not like doing housework.","Father is well; Ewell is working in Hampton; Benjamin will be going to college.","Father has been sick; Beverly has been sick; Ewell has an engineering job in Pennsylvania.","Encloses notes about the Bladen family; Page Saunders is visiting.","Father is well; Bessie is keeping house.","Mr. Grigsby has been visiting; Beverly is at the Farm.","Received his letter; Bessie has arrived.","Thanks her for the letter; visited Virginia Beach and Takoma.","Asks about Hattie.","Glad she will visit; family news; discusses Tom's death.","Tom may not be dead; Ben and William visited.","Letter of recommendation for Benjamin S. Ewell.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Statement concerning Benjamin Ewell by Thomas H. Williamson on same sheet.","Has heard rumors that he has resigned; is glad he resigned.","Informs him of a job at Hampden Sidney; has been offered a job at VMI.","Has been carrying Madison for years; has employed Dr. John Graham as surgeon.","Asks her to write; will travel to Richmond.","Typed transcription. Original letter is located in the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 4.","Acknowledges receipt of his photograph. (The author is Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)","Invitation to become a member of the society. (The author is Henry V. Goold of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London, England.)","Would like to publish General Ewell's report of Gettysburg, but it has already been published; will be publishing a series of papers on Gettysburg. The author is J. William Jones of the Southern Historical Society.]","News of the family; tells her to take anything of his that she needs.","Mrs. Caruthers [?] received the power of attourney; decribes the local girls.","Mr. Caruthens [?]) has received the amount; family news; has had an earthquake; Uncle Henry's negroes were sold.","Lucy has been sick; comments on death of Ann's mother; Rrebecca is going to Washington; Mary Jane is doing well in school.","Has had a headache attack; asks her to visit.","Stoddert family genealogy information.","Has been visiting Harriott; is thinking about courting a young lady.","Has inquired about getting a West Point appointment for Richard; hopes he will leave the army and be a lawyer.","Will find success in the cities; advice for success.","Tom has arrived and he will take care of him; wants to buy Negroes.","Got her abusive letter; has unsuccessfully tried preaching. The letter is postmarked Prince Edward Court House.","Richard was visiting and has been sick; mother and Becca and Emma [?] are being disagreeable.","Has been preaching; Dr. Tyler died; Mrs. Ewell disappeared and they feared she had run off with her beau.","Mother has left; other family news.","May be able to lend money; does not want mother to visit.","Sends money; mother is going to Giles County.","Directions for care of home; thinks Richard will stay in the army.","Would like to repair the porch; sends directions for care of home.","Has received few letters; murderer has taken to Taos where he confessed; describes San Juan Day celebration; Kit Carson traveled with him to the Indian settlement.","Tells her she writes unpleasant letters; will sent money; directions for care of home.","Can't bear to be parted from his mother;  –feels her death deeply.","Is leaving New Mexico for home.","Is very appreciative; is planning to rent a small house.","Has been sick; visited the seminary.","Advises her on marriage.","Advises her not to go to Williamsburg in the summer; has some pupils.","Received letter on Becca's death.","Yankees stole almost everything from Mrs. Jones; is teaching; is caring for four widows.","Is living at the same place; is teaching.","The first letter relates that he went to Spring Hill where Richard was sick; Richard and Lizinka died.\nThe second letter is from : Elizabeth S. Ewell to Anne. Sends the copy of W.S.'s letter.","Describes death of Richard and Lizinka.","Discusses wills of Richard and Lizinka.","Campbell has money for the monument; discusses inscriptions on the monument.","Law limits the pensions to the immediate family; discusses religion.","Received the coffee pot, but does not drink coffee; believes the Texas matter is settled; enjoys where he is living; the people treat their horses badly.","Lizzie is having trouble with Ewell; –describes his bad behavior; is going to a dinner.","Is having trouble breathing; has made a new will.","Has been busy with church activities; his cook is getting better; is taking Belladonna.","Did not have any pain last night; does not feel he should be alone, is well fixed where he is.","Thinks it would be better for Ewell to go away to school; has been working hard.","Describes his day at college; describes a family quarrel; wrote a good speech.","Two letters. Has been working very hard. Incomplete.","Copy of the order appointing Benjamin S. Ewell to the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.","Apologizes for his conduct.","Thanks him for the paper on coal.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Postscript by Robertt. Weir.","Offers to help him.","Asks for information on Colonel Ewell.","Comments on training of civil engineers.","Has opening for civil engineers. [Trimble was chief Engineer of Baltimore and Susquehanna RRr. at this time].","Congratulates him on his marriage.","Sympathy letter on death of her son.","Colonel. Ewell is sick in Macon [?]; General Ewell is sick; war news.","Her father, General Richard Ewell, and mother have died.","Laments death of her parents.","Thinks Hattie is her most attractive child; thinks Lily is peculiar; has been happy in Williamsburg; Col. Ewell has been sick.\nAlso:  Brown, Campbell, to B.S. Ewell. Encloses the above letter.","Sends a photograph; children are sick; has not named her baby yet.","Two letters. The first relays the news that the General has died; the children are well. The second letter is from October 1, no year. ,Has been in Canada; has found mention of cousin Ben and the General in Appleton's biographical dictionary; St. Louis fair is in progress.","Two letters. The first letter relays the news that Lizinka is in Madeira; Lily was invited to break fast with the king of Portugal.\nThe second letter, circa January 24, 1872, informs the receipient that Mother died.","Two letters. The first letter congratulates her on her marriage to Mr. Scott; advises her on how to handle a husband. The second letter, undated, relates that the author has been reading various novels; does not like George Eliot; describes her children.","There are windows in church for her mother and father. Incomplete.","The letter is addressed to \"Lizzie\". Congratulates her on her marriage.","Inquires about a type of earth called \"bermuda tripoli.\"","Thanks him for his letters.","Letter of recommendation for B.S. Ewell to serve as Secretary of the Interior.","His article will be appearing; invites B.S.E. to visit.","Thanks him for the gift.","Asks for a description of Upshur's [?]) father.","Encloses a letter from C. Gallup asking about B.S. Ewell.","The letter is from William H. Zinsser, New York. He suggests a town patrol to help combat lack of morale at Fort Eustis.","Hopes he will keep teaching.","Certificate of election to membership in the Society.","Uncle Newton got married.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 5, Folder 4.","Describes his trip through the Carolinas.","Is sending pigs to Mrs. Scott.","Farming suggestions.","Enclosure: Three sheets of data on farming.","Recalls the war; asks for a picture.","Is planning to go to Mississippi; has visited Annapolis; Uncle William is no longer practicing law, but is engaged in speculation; the ball was a failure due to the local clergy.","An incomplete letter concerning a professorship at Transylvania University. Asks him to write; offers him a job at Lexington; describes the college.","Describes problems with workers and the College.","Hopes a month at headquarters will improve her health; the Howe [?]) boy has been killed; has received tea from England. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","The letter is addressed \"To Lizzie\". Has been sewing; social news.","Relates war news. The letter is from \"Cousin\" in Richmond.","Glad she has not left Richmond; relates war news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Sarah\" [McIlvainez?].","Father says the College will stay in Williamsburg; drunken soldiers almost grabbed her arm; social news. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Thanks her for the photograph; has had visitors; father has John Brown in ambrotype. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Family news. The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","Received her letter; family news; had her photograph taken. The letter is signed \"Aunt Lizzie\".","Bessie left for Norfolk. The letter is signed by \"Mama\". [This is not from Julia Ewell. Probably from a member of the Hoge (?) family.]","Has been sick; has a new book; family news; Negroes are going to have a celebration; her dog was lost. The letter is signed \"Maymay\".","Misses Richmond; social news. The letter is signed: \"Bee\".","Sent her bundle to mother; Hattie sent a pickle knife and fork; wishes she would not get married; family news. Enclosure: A pencil drawing entitled \"Mary's new walking dress.\" The letter is signed \"Mamie\".","The letter is signed: \"Charlotte\". The author comments on her marriage; has been sick.","One letter signed: \"Aunt Lizzie\"","2 items. Both letters may have been authored by Harriet Brown Turner. \n[1865?] May 7 Letter: Uncle is a prisoner; Captain Turner is taking the Oath of Allegiance; mother was arrested; war news. \n[1865?] May 24 Letter: Mother is still under arrest; Captain Turner has arrived; family news; war news.","3 items. Unsigned.","Ben has been sick and died. Signed: \"Matilda\".","Sends a draft for $69; has sold or hidden goods to keep them from Yankees.","Tried to cross Confederate lines; suggests that Richard Ewell [?] leave for Bermuda where money will be provided.","This letter may be addressed to Thomas Ewell. Incomplete. The author urges him to go on with his research.","Has been visiting Bettie; had a bad time at Mrs. Temple's; may marry Mr. Temple.","Will use the money Ccousin William sent; Hattie Turner visited.","This letter may be authored by Richard Ewell Scott. The author describes his hotel and the soldiers.","12 items.","Series 2 includes papers from various sources","1 item. First draft of the article on the first battle of Winchester.","1 item. 8 pages. 23 cm.Printed pamphlet. Correspondence between Generals R. S. Ewell and G. T. Beauregard, to which are added extracts from a letter of Gen. Fitz Lee. Nashville, Tennessee, Wheeler, Osburn, and Duckworth.","This folder contains a rough draft of an address made before the city council of Williamsburg, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: Power of attorney given by Charlotte Ewell to her brother, William Ewell, authorizing him to manage his property held by her as trustee.","Colonel Benjamin S. Ewell,  for the month of July 1860. (See Tucker Papers.)","1 item.","1 item.","SEE OVERSIZE FILE","The deed covers a portion of the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia.","The deed covers a tract of land called Stony Lonesome and woodland on the Rock Smith Farm in Prince William County, Virginia. The deed is not signed by Elizabeth S. Ewell.","1 item.","The letter asks the citizens of James City, York, and Warwick Counties for labor and implements for the construction of defenses on the peninsula.","1 item. Copy.","1 item.","Signed John Letcher.","Signed John Letcher.","The letter acknowledges his promotion to the rank of colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and gives a copy of an order to muster six companies of volunteers from James City and the adjoining counties and a list of companies mustered.","Signed James A. Sedden.","Certificate of appointment of Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, Col. Randolph Harrison, and Capt. R. A. Wise as examiners under an act to provide for the reorganization of the militia for Williamsburg and James City County. Signed Gilbert C. Walker.","Full title: Reminisces of General Magruder and events around Williamsburg, written by Benjamin S. Ewell for the Magruder-Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans. Copy.","USMA Reunion booklet that includes Necrology with published version of \"Benjamin S. Ewell: A Tribute by E.J. Harvie.\" Pages 11-14.","This folder contains a single document: dDeed given by Elizabeth Ewell, widow of Thomas Ewell, et al., of Prince William County, to Alexander Spotswood Grigsby, covering two lots in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia.","This folder contains a single document: dDraft of deed granting to Benjamin S. Ewell and William Stoddert her interest in a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia.","A memorandum book of which only 19 pages of the 336 pages were written upon. The book contains data on the Ewell family, including several extracts of letters dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.","An greement of Elizabeth S. Ewell, R. S. Ewell, William Stoddert, and Benjamin S. Ewell to carry into effect the will of Rebecca Lowndes Ewell, that was declared invalid by the court","1 item. The article concerns Richard S. Ewell's part in the second capture of Winchester, with a note by H. S. Turner.","Includes a note by Campbell Brown dated November 6, 1873.","A poem written by Dr. H. M. Clarkson for the Ewell centennial celebration held at Manassas, Virginia, by the Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans.","Plat of a tract of land in Prince William County, Virginia, surveyed for Dr. Thomas Ewell, 1821","Apothecary's scales used by Dr. Thomas Ewell, surgeon, in the War of 1812.","Copy of a notice in the National Intelligencer announcing the death of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.","Copy.","This folder contains a single letter. The writer notes that this is an extract from a letter written by President James Madison, at Montpelier, to Mr.Edward Coles.","Broadside. Printed circular letter advertising as a summer resort, Belle-Air in Prince William County, Virginia, the old home of the Ewell family.","1 item. An essay on Williamsburg by Elizabeth L. Scott.","This folder contains 58 items. There are papers in English, Spanish, and Japanese, including a Japanese pencil sketch.","Letter from Marquess, W.H., Mexico, Missouri, to W. Stoddert.","Certified copy. Requesting the governor to procure exemption from military duty for employees of Eubanks and Co.,  \u0026 Co., cotton and wool carders.","This folder contains genealogical information, including some from the Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania.","31\" x 36\" Plat of Ewell property showing \"Old line Bowden, Ewell.\"","Series 4 contains the Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, and signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible. The first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and the last entry is from 1918.","Ewell Family Bible, published by Williams and Whiting in 1810, which is signed by Thomas Ewell. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries.  A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, \"A Yankee's description of Williamsburg.\" Page 66 has a clipping, \"The Old Garden\" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. Family records are in the center of the Bible, first entry is the birth of Thomas Ewell in 1784 and last entry is 1918. Contains newspaper obituaries. A few loose notes about births and deaths.","Series 6 is the diploma of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell from the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Acc. No. 2011.020)"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe following letters and papers were originally included in the Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers, but have been removed:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from 'V. Jefferson Davis' (Varina Davis) at Beauvoir House, Beauvoir, Mississippi, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1890 January 25. This letter acknowledges receipt of the resolutions passed by the citizens of Williamsburg and James City County on the death of Jefferson Davis. 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Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1887 May 15\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTurner (Harriot S.), at Washington, D.C., to Dr. [?] Wise, undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTurner (Harriot S.) to Dr. Wise, undated \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWatkins (F. N.), at Hampden Sidney College, to the Visitors of the William and Mary University, 1848 April 7. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest (Robert), at North East P.O., Cecil County, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1866 April 8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWyatt (Charles B.), at San Francisco, California, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1869 April 8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unknown person to Elizabeth Ewell, undated. Incomplete. Transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 120. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from R. McCandlish at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. Forwarded to Buckland, Prince William County. 1848 July 15.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This letter was moved to the College Papers Collection, UA 14, Box 5, Folder 4.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collection, UA 14), Box 9, Folder 2. Place holder sheet in folder states: See: William and Mary College papers. folder 138. A second sheet (acidic paper) notes ...taken from Ewell Papers because it mentions honorary degree of L.L.D. conferred by Wiliam and Mary upon Dr. Craik. 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Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1890 January 25. This letter acknowledges receipt of the resolutions passed by the citizens of Williamsburg and James City County on the death of Jefferson Davis. This item has been transferred to the Jefferson Davis Papers.","Letter from Sallie Munford at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth Ewell. 1865 May 16. This item has been transferred to Virginia Cities - Williamsburg Papers (Folder 3).","Mason family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Neale family data, undated. Transferred to Virginia genealogy, Mss. 39.4 G29.","Photograph of Malachi Gardner, carriage driver of Benjamin S. Ewell. Undated. As of 5/2016, this item has been transferred to the Portrait File: University Archives Photograph Collection, F and S, Gardiner, Malachi. 2 copies.","The letters below were transferred to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collecton) or the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records:","Letter from Robert Nelson at Shanghai, China, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1873 November 10. This item has been transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 139.","Letter from F. N. Page at Shelby, Gloucester County, Virginia, to Professor Benjamin S. Ewell. 1849 April 18.","Letter from Charles F. Richardson at New York, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell. 1877 March 9.","An act to establish a normal school at William and Mary College. 1888 March 19.","Resolution of the alumni association of William and Mary College, upon the death of Benjamin S. Ewell. 1894 October 1.","Two pages from a report of Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated.","Page 17 of a report by Benjamin S. Ewell as president of William and Mary College. Undated. The report includes a quotation from an address by former president John Tyler to the alumni of William and Mary on the 166th Anniversary.","Page 19 of a paper concerning the establishment of a normal college. Undated.","Printed card containing information about William and Mary College. Undated.","Black certificate of proficiency. College of William and Mary Papers. Undated.","Braxton (Corbin) to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Buckland, Prince William County, Virginia Postmarked Richmond, Virginia, 1848 July 24","Burgess (B.J.), at Wilmington, North Carolina, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1878 November 2","Craik (James), at Louisville, Benjamin S. Ewell at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1876 September 2","Davies (Charles), at New York, to John Tyler, 1848 April 27. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","Ewell (Benjamin S.), at Washington, D.C., to Charles W. Porter, 1872 February 16","Ewell (Elizabeth) to Richard Ewell, 1858 July 9. (See William and Mary Papers, Folder 17, Item 3.)","Ewell (Elizabeth) to William Stoddert, 1858 July 22","Forest (Douglas F.), at Washington, D.C., to the President and Faculty of William and Mary College, 1879 March 26","Fulton (William), at Salisbury, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, 1872 July 29","Gilman (D. C.), at Baltimore, Maryland, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1887 May 28","Griffin (J. L. C.), at Sharon, Mississippi, to President Benjamin S. Ewell, 1855 January 12","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1868 January 2","Grisby (Hugh Blair), at Edgehill, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1872 June 2","Hall (J. Lesslie), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Mrs. Beverly Scott, at Ewell, James City County, Virginia, 1902 February 7","Hobson (Annie J. W.), at Richmond, to Col. Ewell, 1877 September 29","Hoge (Addison), at Oxford, Mississippi, to Col. B. S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1888 May 18","Hough (M.), at Baltimore, to Elizabeth Ewell, daughter of Benjamin S. Ewell, 1859 February 9","Lee (J. F.), at Annapolis, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, 1868 January 23","McLane (Robert), at Washington, D.C., to John Tyler and the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College, Virginia, 1848 April 5. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 82, page 2, item 2m papers relating to the appointment of Benjamin S. Ewell to the chair of mathematics, 1848 April 5-27","Meade (William), at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, to Professor Ewell, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1849 March 18. Transferred to William and Mary College Papers, folder 99.","Munford (Maria), at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth S. Ewell, 1859 October 30","Munford (Maria) to Elizabeth S. Ewell, undated","Smith (R. McF.), at Nashville, Tennessee, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Ewell, Virginia, 1892 October 3. Original letter was transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 127, page 5.","Sweet (Drew), at Waynesville, Ohio, to Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1887 May 15","Turner (Harriot S.), at Washington, D.C., to Dr. [?] Wise, undated","Turner (Harriot S.) to Dr. Wise, undated","Watkins (F. N.), at Hampden Sidney College, to the Visitors of the William and Mary University, 1848 April 7. Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship.","West (Robert), at North East P.O., Cecil County, Maryland, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1866 April 8","Wyatt (Charles B.), at San Francisco, California, to Benjamin S. Ewell, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1869 April 8","Letter from unknown person to Elizabeth Ewell, undated. Incomplete. Transferred to the William and Mary College Papers, folder 120.","Letter from R. McCandlish at Williamsburg, Virginia, to Benjamin S. Ewell at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. Forwarded to Buckland, Prince William County. 1848 July 15.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 2.","Letter recommending Benjamin S. Ewell for a professorship. This letter was moved to the College Papers Collection, UA 14, Box 5, Folder 4.","This item has been moved to the William and Mary College Papers (College Papers Collection, UA 14), Box 9, Folder 2. Place holder sheet in folder states: See: William and Mary College papers. folder 138. A second sheet (acidic paper) notes ...taken from Ewell Papers because it mentions honorary degree of L.L.D. conferred by Wiliam and Mary upon Dr. Craik. On separated materials list.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 9, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 6, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 3, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 5.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 1.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 6.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 2, Folder 2.","This item has been moved to the Office of the President, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records, Box 1, Folder 3.","This item has been moved to the College Papers Collection, Box 10, Folder 1.","Physical Location: Removed to Virginia genealogy. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Accession 1996.17","Beverley Randolph Tucker was born in Virginia to John Randolph Tucker and Fanny Crump Tucker.  He was a physician, medical professor, author, and poet. 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General Assembly. House of Delegates","Women--Virginia--Social life and customs","Correspondence","Diaries","Financial records","Receipts (financial records)","Transcripts","3433 items.","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into seven series:","Series 1 is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker Families;","Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of Capt. Henry Brown and his family;","Series 3 is Group C, containing the papers of John Thompson Brown;","Series 4 is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker Families;","Series 5 contains printed material received with the collection;","Series 6 contains transcriptions of Material Pertaining to John Thompson Brown (1802-1836): Boxes 7-19 by Lonny Dobbs;","Series 7 contains transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), possibly by Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough Barlowe and two copies of the inventory.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into various subseries by family names, personal names or subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the names of various other persons but the most prominent name is the one used to describe the subseries.","Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown 1(1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown 2(1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. 3(1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown 3(1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II 4(1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown 4(1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter 1(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter 2(1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter 2(1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Drewry in 1862 and Charlotte (Drewry) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker 1(1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker 2(1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker 3married Lucy (?). The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker 3married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker 3(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker 2(1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 2(1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People","William Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France.","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00051.frame","There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791-1920.941 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B855Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart","Mss. 65 B855 Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)","CDs from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.","Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates.","Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","This finding aid is also available in microfilm format in Swem Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge. Boxes 1-6.","The series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College.  221 items.","Note concerning the gift \"Received from Mrs. Fleming Saunders, of Evington, Virginia, in exchange for a scholarship grant to Miss Frances Bland Saunders,\" 3 March 1947.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin, as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3. Brown, as connected with Coalter and Tucker.","Chart of Coalter and Brown families compiled by Jennifer Boone for an honors thesis.","Sheets of sundry genealogical notes.","Notes concerning John Coalter (1769-1838).","Topical poems of this period written by John Coalter, Maria Rind, St. George Tucker, William Munford, and others.","Autobiographical sketch of John Coalter until his 18th birthday. Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge County; his responsibility for the farm while his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning 40£ per year as usher for John Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St. George Tucker to move because the plantation, Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no longer pay John Coalter 30£ per annum; offers to give legal training in exchange for tutoring services.","His father hopes that John Coalter will return home, to the higher country, for the \"sickly season.\"","Physical Location: See medium oversize file. Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at Dickinson College, and congratulates John Coalter on his chance to study law with St. George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr. Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for three and six years respectively, were freed by the army in Detroit.","James Rind, had been studying law with St. George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in the household of St. George Tucker, where she cared for the children.","Concerning his wedding trip.","Covers lacking. John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Scope and Contents Approval of the Constitution by South Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian War in Georgia. \"Brother Davidis over in Gloucester. If he has success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will be ready to sett (sic) out on our route to the South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I mean the loss of Health and a good complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the farm while he is getting started in his law practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without riches...however deserving of a better fate the poor always meet with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned at an early age and were helped by the Tuckers.)","Physical Location: For letters of 16 June 1790, 4 July 1790, and 7 Sept. 1790 see medium oversize file. 12 letters. His father does not have land to give him at that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has decided to move to Staunton, and continue his studies. In September he writes that he hopes to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great difficulty and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry, Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me faster in the world than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he, casts a light upon all around him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your gallantry but am affeared it has been attended with some accident which occasioned your move to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to establish himself and be in a position to support her as his wife.)","Physical Location: For letters of 6 April 1791 and 15 April 1791 see medium oversize file. 18 letters. After obtaining his license in Williamsburg, John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather have the approbation of that man than worlds for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to the torment by John Randolph; plans are made for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to remarry; she wishes to move up the date of their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by him...\"","Physical Location: For letter of 23 April 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 3 letters. \"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr. Wythe, I live in his house and board at his table...In this happy situation tomorrow I begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become Mrs. Tucker.\"","2 letters. Covers lacking. On the return of a wagon and horses; purchases of additional farm animals.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: For letter of 22 July 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 4 letters. Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown) was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","Scope and Contents This law practice is discouraging; entrusts Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across the Alps\"-- there are too many lawyers already.","Covers lacking. Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe. Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly, and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith. Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children she will be bringing to the marriage.","Scope and Contents Description of George Washington delivering an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter, addressed to \"Fan\", was written soon after Mrs. Coalter had gone to Staunton with her husband.","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\". On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Scope and Contents Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or 20£ per year as a clerk.","Scope and Contents The letter from Edinburgh contains an interesting description of life in the Scottish capital, the coldness of his fellow students until they are introduced, and his warm reception by a family to which he had a letter of introduction.","Scope and Contents Reports that there are about forty students at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W\u0026amp;M,\" and his mother proposes to send him to Harvard.","Enquires about Maria and their expected first child. (Both mother and child died.)","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina. The \"distressing news\" that his wife has died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his wife; reports the Independence Day orations at the College of William and Mary, and mentions the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed French immigrants at Norfolk.","The subseries covers the correspondence of John Coalter during his second marriage to Margaret Davenport, and in the early years of his third marriage, to Frances Bland Tucker. Correspondence from St. George Tucker, Mrs. Lelia Tucker, Mrs. Judith Randolph, and others is included. The material traces the legal career of John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk of the Court in Staunton, through the period of his second and third marriages to Margaret Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances Bland Tucker, 1802. Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker, her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and others. Correspondence with William Munford, in Williamsburg, is also included. 164 items.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","Scope and Contents William Munford has returned to the College of William and Mary, and is \"in constant attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs. Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to lose a newborn child.\"","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at her character\"; makes insulting statements regarding John Coalter's late wife. John Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny Stuart into court, after which she offers to return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships, including three men of war, five or six frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the presence of the French fleet and a British frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\"; for her, but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to her.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on the occasion of her marriage to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs. Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding divorce of F.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\"; and Indian victory are mentioned and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg, South Carolina and Louisville, Georgia. Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs. Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"; (the death of John Coalter's second wife in childbirth; the child also died.)","Scope and Contents Business letter concerning collections to be made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with the name of Tucker\"; and that she \"had better look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph, half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been linked with her sister in the famous scandal proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances Tucker.","Scope and Contents Fanny B. Tucker has just married John Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at the age of 18.","Scope and Contents Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters. Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the Warm Springs for her health in September.","Scope and Contents The letters are written from Richmond, Elm Grove, and Lexington. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to Williamsburg for the birth of her first child, Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of Lexington Academy.","The letters are written from Williamsburg, Haymarket, and Fredericksburg.","Scope and Contents John Coalter was on the court circuit.","Scope and Contents The letters are undated, but are replies to those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second wife of John Coalter, who continued to live with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St. George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Scope and Contents Death of her husband and her straitened circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure his deafness.","Scope and Contents In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker set out for Staunton in order to be there for the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents First mention of the second Coalter child, Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of his second daughter and the purchase of Elm Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her disappointment over his continued deafness Dr. Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over the servants. Illness of Polly the seamstress.","Scope and Contents Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","Scope and Contents John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","Scope and Contents The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary Coalter.","Scope and Contents Small pox.","Scope and Contents Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter).","Scope and Contents Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every summer at the medicinal springs for her health.","Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint George Tucker (June 14, 1809) upon the occasion of the birth of his first grandson, St. George Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the academies and colleges of that day. Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; the family then moved to Richmond. There are many letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs. Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and from other members of the family. There also are many letters to the daughters of John Coalter, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married Beverley Tucker and Polly Coalter and writes concerning her sons Saint George and Tudor.","Scope and Contents Letters written by John Coalter from Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanhawa Court House, and Richmond during spring and autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm Grove, and other matters.","Instructions for planting and penning up of a farm.","Scope and Contents One of the letters concerns the troubles with the English and the hope for a peaceful settlement.","Scope and Contents Three letters written from Richmond and Williamsburg. In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter) \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will never descend from the dignity of a private station.\" Concerning the education of his grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our youth, or the management of their tutor, shall undergo a most surprising and happy change in this Country, I had rather he should never hear of an Academy or a College, than enter the walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"She must come to us, as soon as she can leave Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas, that she may complete the clothing of the Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the district. About the war situation: \"We are more Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our wholetrade to aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we would only give the revenue arising from trade.\"","Scope and Contents Her parents were trying to buy a cook for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great success.","Scope and Contents These five letters although undated, are believed to have been written in 1810.","Scope and Contents Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently by the youth of the town.","Scope and Contents Eleven letters written from Richmond and Staunton. John Coalter attending the spring and autumn sittings of the Circuit Court, sends instructions for the management of the farm.","Scope and Contents Six letters discuss news of the farm, the slaves, and family. Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm and permission for him to visit his daughter in Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","David Coalter, Mary's father.","Scope and Contents Letters from William McPheeter, J. W. Allison, Joseph C. Cabell, Polly A. Steele, and William Kinney to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter (relatives of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) are placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents The four letters from M.S. Baldwin, M. Bush, Arch. Stuart, and \"M. T.,\" in Richmond and Petersburg, are undated but are presumed to date from 1811, and placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents Five letters written from Lewisburg and Kanahwa. In May, John Coalter writes of his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help me, I know not what to do. All have advised my acceptance.\" In October he writes of arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","Scope and Contents In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such long periods when John Coalter is absent on the court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\" their two year old son St. George Tucker Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest assured that no other Judge of the General Court will accept the office which is tendered you.\"","Scope and Contents John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs. Judith Randolph.","Scope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.","Scope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.","Scope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action \"is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an Event not far off.\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.","Scope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.","Scope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.","Scope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Scope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","The cover has the date and \"J. Randolph, Jr.\" endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\" his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th instant.\"","Scope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)","Scope and Contents She writes that \"the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months.\" Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.","Scope and Contents Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","Scope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.","Children of John Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter and St. George Tucker Coalter; their spouses; children and other extended family","Correspondence primarily of the two surviving children of John and Francis Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith H. Tomlin Coalter. Includes genealogical material on the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H. Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the collection from this time until her death in 1859. The last letters from their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special note is a letter of October 1831 in which St. George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and misunderstanding in the family, and appears to cast a slur on his step-father St. George Tucker. The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his wife and sister, especially those written from the springs which he visits each year, form the largest single group. In these letters an interesting picture of nineteenth century social life is to be found.","Typescript.","Scope and Contents School girl letters written by J. H. T. before her marriage.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit to America.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate Virgilia Savage in December on her marriage.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled, Generous Gentleman.\"","Scope and Contents Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents St. George Tucker complains about his sight and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in the first of these letters. The last is endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most dear Grandfather's illness and death are omitted and put to themselves.\"","Scope and Contents These two letters were written after the death of St. George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\" reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.","Scope and Contents The first letter is a printed invitation to a ball at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added; the second letter is a Temperance pledge signed by St. George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and three others.","Scope and Contents Evidently left in charge of his father's estate, Chatham, he writes concerning examinations at the College of William and Mary and of his experiences in vaccinating and performing minor operations on the slaves. (He was a 20 year old farmer with no medical training.)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave school to marry.","The letter is to Judith Tomlin Coalter after her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) made an attack on the Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter), finding no one else would rise to their defense, answered him...\"","Scope and Contents His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring sickness which was to bring on his early death in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter family home, for the birth of her first child, Walker Tomlin Coalter.","Scope and Contents In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he writes describing Randolph's estate and personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and entertains me highly with his conversation on all subjects...He is a man of the finest and nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning her husband's financial difficulties.","Scope and Contents Writes to his sister about crops, planting, and the like.","Scope and Contents The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter, are infants; this letter is written by St. George Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents In the January letter, he announces the birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes on July 27 that \"the shortness of breath and the hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Scope and Contents Her husband is at the Springs; she would like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says he never wished for money before, as the want of it keeps him from having company...\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Charlottesville, White Sulphur Springs, Warm Springs, Sweet Springs, and Salt Sulphur Springs. An interesting group of letters describing life at several of the medicinal springs which were so popular in the 19th century. He describes his daily regimen, the meals, the baths, other tourists, the costs, and the physical characteristics of the resorts.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband about family matters while he is at the springs for his health.","Scope and Contents A continuation of his previous letters, including a crude drawing of the buildings and grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","Scope and Contents In November she mentions that Beverley Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write, add their notes to the letter to their grandfather.","Scope and Contents Her husband is overworking, and she fears for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a position with a Richmond company.","Scope and Contents He writes about his poor health; mentions his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very much concerned with gold mine projects; he now orders St. George Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has decided that the family shall move closer to him. They are dependent on John Coalter financially.","Scope and Contents Life at the springs, his continuing illness and his poverty.","Scope and Contents His discouragement as he contemplates the move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven years we have to begin the world afresh and fix and build and lay out and all that -- oh thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent County, to St. George's Park, King William County, and the difficulty of the move.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very ill, and the new place is slow in getting established. Mention of the will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in which the good name of St. George Tucker is slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of St. George Tucker are also involved.","Scope and Contents Home has not been settled since leaving Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor, with a new house but a very indifferent one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home where his late father John Coalter forced him to move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never financially independent of his father). A doctor's prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal springs and regular exercise. Four months later St. George Tucker Coalter died. The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add to the correspondence as the years go on, for the families are very attached to one another and there is much visiting back and forth as well as letter writing. The letters of the cousins have been combined in this collection, so that an interesting picture is given of the life of this period; see a report of a traveling entertainer who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8 February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a Girl's school (2 February 1852). There is much discussion of diseases which were prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","Scope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.","Scope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning.\" (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.","Scope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down.\"","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me out.\"","Autographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, \"The last line I ever got from him.\"","(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.","Unsigned and undated.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.","Scope and Contents Of her poverty and of the need for means to educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Scope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.","Scope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)","Scope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him...\"","Scope and Contents He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the coldest and most melancholy place in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Hopes to get a place from the sale of the estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a long time not to have a house to call your own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so, perhaps, some money may have been received from the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take dancing lesson of 2 hours length every Saturday.\"","Scope and Contents Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Consumption and Cholera are discussed as well as the final division of the estate. Mrs. Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of her own. Sons John and Henry left in September for the University of Virginia where they room with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J. Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A dreadful affair has lately occurred at the University, one young man killed another, both intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as that is, it takes the cold blooded yankees to perpetrate the refinement of barbarism in stewing, and boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that he has had charge of the harvest at the farm because the overseer was sick. He has also advised the local doctors on Cholera cures: \"Mama received your letter by the last post and was much obliged to you for the copy you sent her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it reached here I have copied it twice for different doctors who seemed much pleased with the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the affectionate relationship between the two continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into Ellwood, the former summer home of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Letters written before and after a long visit. There were ties between the families despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter fears her youngest son, Saint George, has Typhoid fever.","Scope and Contents A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs. Washington.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking. About life in the great houses of Virginia, excursions on river boats, dances, and the like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a man from a woman. They go about in this costume for some time and have a dance...one gentleman went draped as a lady and no one found him out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his beads...\"","Scope and Contents \"When will your new house, or rather, new home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's mother has finally been able to buy a house, Stanley.)","The letter is addressed to \"My dear Cousin\".","Scope and Contents Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a lastingpeace and the welfare of my children preys very much on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s school have reached us from different quarters and report says Jinney and yourself acted a conspicuous part.\"","Scope and Contents A school friend writes of her textbooks: \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French Studies.\"","Scope and Contents Includes a most interesting account of trip by boat from Gloucester County, via Jamestown, to Richmond.","Scope and Contents The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's youngest child.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B. Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for license to practice law; reports on his brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school; her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families were brought together into one. The collection gives an interesting picture of the life and interests of a young lady of moderate circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr. Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with Fanny, although he was a married man with several children. The correspondence became more ardent in the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there. According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton, she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June 1856, and 19 March 1857. Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors, however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854, a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year later there are reports of her interest in the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg, both of whom were courting her. She finally settled on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage invitation are included in this box. Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II, brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.","Scope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude \"by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter, as subsequent correspondence show.)","Letter is addressed to \"My own dear Aunt\".","The letter is addressed to \"My dear sister\". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Scope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend.\"","Scope and Contents \"I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Covers lacking.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.","Scope and Contents To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\u0026amp;quot; and \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children; \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those \"distracting springs\u0026amp;quot; for invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Scope and Contents Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace Lacy.\"","Peronneau Brown and his brother, Thompson, are mentioned. (See letters of December 1855, Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has not changed.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden Sidney College.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he has visited the main cities of the south and attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess that I have been rather disappointed in the people that live in these rich lands--they are as rough as possible...live in log houses and on the very poorest fare.\"","Scope and Contents \"I suppose your wedding will be postponed unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P. Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I approve of your choice...\"","Scope and Contents \"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough affection for the old name to lay claim to it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","\"The King Wm. and Hanover Charaders. Positively their last appearance. At Stanley on Friday evening the 9th this brilliant Company....Ticket 1 ct., children and servants half price.\" A home performance by the Coalter and Bryan cousins. This item is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These covers are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr. Boxes 7 - 13.","Correspondence and business papers of Capt. Henry Brown, Revolutionary War veteran who opened a store in Bedford County, in 1793; Papers of Capt. Brown as Collector of Federal taxes on stills and real property. The Brown family papers begin with the letters and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), successful merchant of Bedford County and Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers are collected in the next section (Boxes 14-19). A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown, are included. The great bulk of the material, however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he opened a general store in Bedford soon after the conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the business, is preserved and the bulk of the material in this box pertains to the business of the store. A good picture of early merchandising is given by the accounts, letters relating to buying and selling trips, and the court actions taken to collect accounts. Beginning with folder 60, there are 39 items relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to 1803. 160 items.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and apprehend the worst from the dangers that encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping knife, tomahawk...return to us in all speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle, found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Note for ll.9.3£, witnessed by Jack Beverley. Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1 September, 1793.\"","Scope and Contents Includes letter from Israel Thompson regarding saddle goods in stock at the store.","Commission of Daniel Brown as Ensign in a Company of Light Infantry, signed by Samuel Coleman and James Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Receipts to Henry Brown for recording a deed.","Agreement to enter into a partnership.","Letters written from Richmond, Georgetown, and Baltimore.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia","Medicines received by Henry Brown from Howard Bennett.","14 pages. Unsigned.","Brrown's accounts as Tax Collector of the Bedford district.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt, purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had made you a Captain.\"","Recording a deed.","Bonds in hands of Jeremiah Jenkins for collection.","Includes a list of the new officers of the Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total value £815, between Leftwich and the Brown brothers.","Printed document signed.","Regarding loss of West India produce on which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear our loss will be considerable.\"","Returns from the Regimental hospital of the 35th U.S. Infantry. Sig. William W. Southall","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John Roberts on land that Captain Henry Brown sold to William Woodford.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20 and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want of prudence.\"","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Taxes collected by Robert Snoddy, in Bedford. 14 pages.","Includes printed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Abstract of duties collected from owners of stills and distilleries","Receipts for monies received by James.","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Directions for sending tax collections.","20 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","28 pages.","Letter includes a copy of Federal instructions to tax collectors. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Printed documents signed. Autographed draft.","Business records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.","Papers include accounts, letters, notes, vouchers, etc.","Accounts concerning the Hancock and Brown store, Lynchburg, Virginia.","Papers relating to the suit of Brown and Clayton vs. Pleasant Murphy, Bedford County, Virginia.","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his long life apart from the purely commercial activities upon which his considerable fortune was built. Included in this box are the papers relating to his other interests: Papers of Captain Henry Brown as Sheriff of Bedford County, Treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and of the New London Agricultural Society, and as executor of the estates of his brother, Daniel Brown, and father-in-law, John Thompson.","Accounts of subscriptions to the repair and improvement of New London Academy meeting house, Bedford County.","Records from Brown's service as Treasurer of the New London Agricultural Society, Bedford County.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of Daniel Brown.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of John Thompson.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly connected with any of his various business enterprises, but concerned principally with court suits involving debts to him. Included is an interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of trust of all his property to his creditors (11 April 1829 and 6 July 1833). Also includes papers concerned with the suit of Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840. Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning and releasing\" Leftwich.","Business papers of Henry Brown","Household, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.","Household, family and personal bills of Henry Brown","Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars in Florida, where he served after he was commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of \"bilious Cholic\" and his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20 per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes: \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio. \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)","Scope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.","Scope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.","Henry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Scope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)","William Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: \"The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel.\"","Scope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)","Henry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Scope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.","Scope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","Scope and Contents The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes about her marriage and the first meeting with her new relatives.","William Brown is the son of Samuel.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Mrs. Alexander (Lockie T. Brown) Irvine is her sister. Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to fresh paint in the boat.","Daniel Brown is the son of Samuel.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to the Presbyterian Church.","Henry Brown is her father.","Scope and Contents \"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and reach George Town. The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans the day before I left-he was not married but expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term marks.","Scope and Contents \"The first two years of our course are exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\" Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Oklawaka River and St. Augustine, Florida. \"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it, this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid description of St. Augustine.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Rose's Landing, Tennessee; Savannah, Georgia; and off Cape Hatteras. Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","8 letters. Total of 12 pages. Typescript.","Children of Captain Henry Brown: letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Captain Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and other members of the immediate family. Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his eyesight, went into the partnership of his father with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this part of the collection include a 44 page book of mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24 July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836). The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May 1836), are also included. The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the card which announced the opening of his law office in Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22 January 1842, mentions the business failures taking place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August of the same year comments on the national political situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\" 128 items.","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\" (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this time, though he continued to suffer from the ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39 years.)","A note for $1,000.00. At this time he was getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson Brown from the members of the House of Delegates.","Scope and Contents Concerning the business of Col. [Mark] Anthony, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears to be involved.","Includes autographed document signed.","44 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Mentions the marriage of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr., for use on his trip to England and the Continent in that year.","56 pages","Scope and Contents Letters written to her husband on his trip. \"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him home).","News from a letter she received from Henry Brown, Jr. in England.","Scope and Contents Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out of a slave.","\"It's really a sad case for me, to be sick from home and away from all that (are) Dear to me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown, Jr. was associated until he opened his own store in 1835. Includes autographed document.","Scope and Contents Brother-in-law, Jack Willcox; his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Includes autographed draft. Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from the time of one of the buying trips that Henry Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock and Brown, he opened his own store.","Scope and Contents Cover lost. Concerning the care for his horses, Young American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is away.","Scope and Contents Written while she and her husband were on a buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York, Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and died.","Unsigned. Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown during the final days in New York.","Scope and Contents An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and selling horses in order to settle the estate.","Profile by Professor William B. Rogers.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry Brown, Jr. estate.","Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown is his mother. Written from school, with endorsement by James Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","H. Guilford Brown is her son.","Charge slips for failing to attend army musters between 1829 and 1839, 1839. 10 items. Printed document signed.","Samuel T. Brown is his his brother-in-law. Letter congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Mrs. Alexander Irvine is her her sister-in-law. She writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her father, with whom she is living and for whom she is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful bride.\"","Draft of the statement concerning the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","His extended wedding trip; description of General Harrison's house.","Court cost voucher recording transfer of 400 acres from Henry Brown to Samuel T. Brown, with tax receipt. 2 items. Printed document signed.","Letter sent care of Judge Crawford at St. Stephens, Alabama. Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","A letter of consolation.","Scope and Contents On the death of W. W. Worthington, brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law, Samuel T. Brown.","Unsigned draft. Written to his overseer with whom he has quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","Agreement for the payment of a debt.","Drafts of a letter to Mark Andrews. 2 items. Concerning the cutting of trees on the property of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder 13:60.","Samuel T. Brown is her brother.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a bridge.","Receipt for postal expenses, April-June, 1849, signed H. Stevens.","Scope and Contents On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased by Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents The sale of a female slave \"with her Brood.\" Samuel T. Brown is Edward Robinson's brother-in-law.","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820; traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican (now Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief illness. The first two letters in Box 14 date from the period of his attendance at New London Academy; then follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination before the faculty, and received the highest mark given at the College, in each of the three years he spent at the College. His report sheets show the requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and contain a resolution passed by the trustees which condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in town. Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in this period is interesting for the comments it contains on the Missouri question and other matters then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his collegiate period may be compared with his statements on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of the House of Delegates. After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions. Upon his return he took up the study of law with Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\" \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the trip West which reveal his first impressions of the Clarksburg area. At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing some of his published writings, speeches, and newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary.\"","Scope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.","Scope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University.\"","Scope and Contents \"My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent...\" Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) \"If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class.\" (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.","Scope and Contents \"Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\" Concerning Lynchburg.","Scope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.","John Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Scope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.","John Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.","A Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","The content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.","\"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed: \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple of letters, continued July 8, 1831, Petersburg. The first section consists of musings and youthful recollections; the second is a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Letter from Alexander M. Jackson, at New London, to John Thompson Brown, regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Notes made at Judge Taylor's Law School.","License to practice law in the superior and inferior courts of this Commonwealth (Virginia).","Musings on friendship and the wise behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","44 pages. Musings written on a trip through Virginia: thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter were to be incorporated into an Independence Day address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Scope and Contents Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people have no money and are wretchedly poor and lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets are included in a bound scrap book, with endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of court, occurring in various parts of the Union, in which the punishment inflicted, has been made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","Report of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia","Speech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\" signed John Thompson Brown\".","\"The following copy of a Petition to the Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the request of a number of our Citizens.\"","32 pages. \"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of the Commonwealth, to the stock of the Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time. Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then submitted the following Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President). Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the following by way of substitute for the above...\"","Correspondence while Brown established himself in Clarksburg, and while representing Harrison County in the General Assembly. The material in this box covers the period 1825 to 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the Clarksburg Enquirer, contained in the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr. Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825). In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This box also contains various printed and manuscript material touching upon his career in the General Assembly. By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and planned to buy into a partnership in a store to advance his financial position. In a letter of March 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses success spoken of and the probability of Clay's being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs, which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation at the bar and a practice that supports me very decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\" over the signature Alexander. (See bound scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00 to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe, a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He reviews what he considers to be the most important problems of the day, and discusses (1) the invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the calling of a Constitutional Convention for the state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the uncontrolled banking system.","Scope and Contents His election to the General Assembly; hope of election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in the debates of the House and do not expect to do so...\"","The note is \"in regard to the question whether Clinton or Calhoun should run as Vice-President on the Jackson ticket\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other, more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of state.\"","Full title: \"Report of a Committee Appointed To Enquire Into The Nature And Extent Of The Evils Arising From The Present Unsettled State Of Land Titles On The Western Waters Of Virginia, And To Devise A Remedy Therefor, With Leave To Report A Bill Or Otherwise\" 6 pages. 2 copies.","3 copies.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Autographed document.","Autographed document.","\"Resolving that members of the House of Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the cause of this Society before the General Assembly of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered the most able one that had been delivered in the House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are pleased to express so deep an interest, is I believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a copy...\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Deptartment F 247 H3B73. The second copy is located in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, under the same call number as above. 17 pages. A report to his constituents on such matters as (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court, (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the committee on this subject, which he chaired, and the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court bills.","Scope and Contents \"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I could desire and shall support myself hereafter without any further drafts on your goodness...\"","Scope and Contents Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he discusses his prospects for Congress and of his plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Order appointing John Thompson Brown Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Virginia Militia.","5 items. Autographed document.","Notes are initialed \"J. T. B.'s\".","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal Springs, as contrasted with those of his constituency.","Scope and Contents In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's commission to his father. During the year he borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father has agreed to advance enough capital for him to become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the General Assembly, he writes that he will be a candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed last session authorizing the county court to levy a tax for repairing roads and bridges.\" On March 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he predicts that the basis of votes for whites will be surrendered in the formation of the new State constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall among the rest...\"","Correspondence from after his marriage to Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg (May 1830), and his move to that city, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1831. Also includes over one hundred toasts given at various occasions. The change which was to occur in the life and fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg circa December 1829, in which there is a discussion of \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (March 18, 1830) in a letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next letter in the collection (May 9, 1830), in draft, contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which was attended by no members of his immediate family. Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (July 22, 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the intention of resettling there and sending for his wife (May 2, 1831). During a four week visit to Harrison County, he finds his political position has declined (June 7, 1831), so he returns to Petersburg, and is invited to make the Independence Day address for the town (June 8, 1831). As a result of this address (and the good influence of his father-in-law) he is nominated to represent the town in the House of Delegates, and is elected without opposition (September 26, 1831). He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg Office of the Bank of Virginia (December 29, 1831), and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which is being established in Richmond (October 20, 1831). Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew outlining his philosophy of life and advising the young man on his future (October 3, 1831). A report of the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described in a letter of September 26, 1831. At the end of this box are collected more than a hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was cut down in the bud and You, my sweetest Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others believed I could certainly be elected to Congress next Spring...I wish to appear at P[etersburg]in a manner which would probably be expected and to avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution. Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if you can spare this additional sum you may hand it over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected and I cannot say that there was any other allay to my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my near relatives were present.\"","Scope and Contents On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr. Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going to N. York to the races. They came with us thus far...\" There is much discussion about where they will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week, were introduced to the President, etc., heard some interesting debates and saw all the great men of the nation...My situation is in all respects agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with much advice.","Scope and Contents After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I have nothing to add on the subject of my future arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you seemed to approve when we were together.\" He writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to them his town house \"furnished with servants\u0026amp;quot;; in another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500 and said that I should always have as much as I wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and account of his own situation.","Scope and Contents Letters from Harrison County report that \"the District needs me badly...but it is too late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined public life--for I would not believe you have abondoned it altogether.\"","Scope and Contents Autographed draft. Advice given to a young man summarizing John Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","Scope and Contents On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown, Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","Autographed drafts. The first important public speech of John Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears to have established his reputation, and which influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the wisdom of his brother's decision to visit England.","Physical Location: See 25 April 1822, Box-folder 14:21, These are the continuous drafts of multiple letters. This draft concerns the second part which contains a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Scope and Contents On July 25, he states that his brother has left on the packet for Baltimore on the way to Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On September 14 he writes that his wife has given birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau, \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Scope and Contents A letter from Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown to John Thompson Brown encloses the letter from Henry Brown Jr. Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a result of which \"I become more and more an American in feeling and principle...\"","Scope and Contents \"I was elected without opposition after announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton (Nat Turner), \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in some measure of the prejudice against them--but think nevertheless that...southern firewould be none the worse for being somewhat cooled by the northern frost.\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to \"sharpers.\" Endorsed by Windham Robertson.","Scope and Contents Describes the quarters he has for his wife and son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I think no measure can or ought to be taken now for the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia in Petersburg.","Two speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of John Thompson Brown in the items included in this box. A member from Petersburg in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson Brown was placed in a position of leadership and strongly influenced the decisions taken in those critical years. His speech on the abolition of slavery was considered so important that Judge Henry St. George Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia delegation to the national convention of the Republican Party; his resolution of the Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the question of President Jackson's moves against the United States Bank was of particular concern to him (9 April 1833). Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his substitute motion on the question is included in this box, as well as his speech on The State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina, delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet form. John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S. Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified by years or experience (December 1832). An interesting report of his meeting with President Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson Brown to his wife (23 May 1832). Also included in this box are letters from John Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer (7 February, 3 March 1833). Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are included at the end of this box. 81 items.","Scope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.","Scope and Contents \"My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.","James Murray Mason (1798-1871).","Scope and Contents \"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","Scope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.","Scope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of engrossing interest...South Carolina is unquestionably wrong and as long as she remains in the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.","2 items. Autographed draft.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.","Scope and Contents \"I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech...\"","4 pages. Doc. No. 14. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. Mr. Marshall's Substitute to the Report... Doc. No. 16. Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina, the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the communication of the governor of this Commonwealth on the same subject.\"","Delivered January 5, 1833. Richmond: Thomas W. White, printer. 1833. 42 pages. 3 copies. After stating his opposition to protective tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent of the Constitution, rather than a violation of its literal principles.\" He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the United States on his general policy but disputes the Proclamation of the President on other grounds, basing his argument on The Law of Nationsby E. de Vattel. As to the action of South Carolina, he contends that there is no possibility of nullification under the Constitution, but that the redress of the wrong done in the tariff act must come by recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\" acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an amendment to the Constitution.","\"Substitute Submitted By Mr. Brown, Petersburg, For the Amended Report of the Committee on Federal Relations\"","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his resolutions.","Scope and Contents \"I was anxious myself that Virginia should maintain an impartial and just attitude toward both S. Carolina and the President, but far the greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I thought there was error on both sides...\" He remarks that Edward [Steptoe]has been successful in getting his appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr. Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\u0026amp;quot; but \"without...your letter...the application could scarcely have been successful.\"","2 copies. Printed manuscript.","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point; report of the enforcing bill in the President's proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","Scope and Contents In July he announces the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","The two items are signed Julian. \"On seeing Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by John Thompson Brown about this period.","Written by John Thompson Brown, Petersburg.","Letters written by John Thompson Brown during portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions of the General Assembly. The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the legislative battle fought and lost against the Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown believed would have disastrous effects on the future of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy the rough and tumble of party politics then developing. Also of interest are the draft of a speech delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates (January 1835). 44 items.","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","Scope and Contents His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in the Assembly; family news.","Scope and Contents \"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end of February and beginning of March he is kept in bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation, mentioning the message President Jackson sent to Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which he will bring with him.\"","Scope and Contents Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's brother, to start his study of law with him.","John J. Allen (1797-1871)","Scope and Contents Sold bank shares to help his brother go into business for himself; gives advice on racing horses.","Draft of a speech delivered in Petersburg on the occasion of the death of Lafayette. 43 pages. Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military Academy. John Thompson Brown is the uncle of Edward J. Steptoe.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the death of a sister and congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","Scope and Contents \"No subject arouses anybody except the senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources at the service of his brother in his new business venture.","3 letters, 1 draft. On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter, which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a fight in the halls of the General Assembly between himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better received than anything I have ever made.\"","A speech \"...upon the Election of a Senator in Congress: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia\". 28 pages. Printed book. Points out the importance of this election for \"future political events and party combinations in the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr. Leigh.","Written by John Thompson Brown. 70 pages. Autographed Manuscript. Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like, prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates. 116 pages.","Letters from February 1835, until his death in November 1836; manuscripts of four articles written to oppose the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President. The closing sessions of the State Legislature of 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a street fight with an opponent in which he receives a black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins the election (April 1835). Before the next session of the legislature, John Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more material on the question of slavery (August 1835), and prepared three long drafts written in opposition to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are included at the end of the 1835 section. Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store. The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of his brother, and his activity in settling his brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the letters included in this box. At the end of July he takes his family to his father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which keeps him there until his death on 26 November 1836. 104 items.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson Brown II, and tells his brother that he had ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the store that he had opened.","Scope and Contents Political activity in Petersburg.","Scope and Contents \"The Jackson party has brought out the most popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite likely he will beat me.\"","Scope and Contents On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\" There is also a report of a street fight between John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his law studies, and describes a visit by his old friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit him.","Scope and Contents Drafts on the subject of the northern resolutions on slavery, particularly those recently passed in Portland and Boston. 3 items.","4 items. Autographed draft.","Scope and Contents Family discussion, especially concerned with the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown as an honorary member of the Jefferson Society.","The content is on the stand of Mr. Van Buren on emancipation. 28 numbered columns. Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","Notes on this topic.","Notes on this topic. Also includes an additional 2 page insertion.","Notes on this topic. The series of drafts is in opposition to Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President of the United States. 48 pages.","Good reports of the new business venture of his brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York; political prospects now look bright, but \"the state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Commission as Captain in the Cavalry of the Virginia Militia. Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","Signed Captain John Thompson Brown.","Scope and Contents John Thompson Brown writes five letters from Hobson's Inn, Homes, Otter Hills, and Lynchburg. On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown, Jr.","Scope and Contents Taking inventory at the store of his late brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Scope and Contents Reports on the stocktaking in the store of Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the last letter from John Thompson Brown to his father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes arrangements for his own family to join him. (This is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her uncle regarding the recent death of her father, Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John Thompson Brown, 29 years\" envelope marked, \"For sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave, Nov. 13th, 1845, Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington,\" with clover leaves inside.","Signed Robert B. Bolling, Chairman. A resolution in memory of John Thompson Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John Thompson Brown, by William A. Dod.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her father-in-law. Mrs. Mary E. Brown is the widow of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of consolation.","In service as Executors of John Thompson Brown.","Drafts.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the region around Bedford, Virginia. 40 pages.","16 pages. Draft.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Incomplete.","The bounties offered for Indian scalps in Bedford between 1755 and 1758.","11 items. Autographed document.","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction details.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman. There are also nineteenth century engravings. Boxes 20 - 24.","Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4, 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to submit. John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by the members of his company (December 1, 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and belt (April 23, 1861) mark the beginning of action, and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a transfer to a more active field of war and an extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The box concludes with items which appear to have been on the person of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, when he was killed in action on 6 May 1864. 83 items.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.","58 pages. Draft.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball...\"","2 copies.","3 items.","Report on ammunition on hand.","3 items.","2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.","4 items.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.","3 items.","Draft of a suggestion for winter furloughs in order to extend the length of service in the fighting season.","Published by West and Johnson, Richmond.","4 items.","13 items.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two over John Thompson Brown's command.","Signed by W. H. Taylor and Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton. 4 items.","Scope and Contents 4 items.","4 items. Autographed document signed.","Receipt for whitewashing two rooms.","Request the return of his report on the battle of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to General Stuart.","4 items.","Papers which appear to have been on John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Gift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County","Book containing several commissions, leather bound.","2 copies. Printed material.","5 items. Newspaper clipping.","Autograph poem and newspaper text; \"Lines written on seeing 'Rifle' the war-horse of Col. J. T. B....\" from the Richmond Dispatch.","The marker titled \"Thompson Brown\" has blue ribbons attached.","The papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She expresses concern that her son is more interested in affairs other than his studies (March 1, 1849). His school career is traced briefly through his years at the University of Virginia (June 28, 1851). The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau Brown and his fiancee, Frances Bland Coalter, 1858, lead into the family correspondence which completes this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker Papers.) From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern farmer to re-establish himself after the war. 108 items.","Scope and Contents Letters written to Samuel T. Brown while he was in Charleston, South Carolina and New London, Virginia. The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is attending school in South Carolina. He was devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of college life and not enough to his studies.","Scope and Contents Congratulating him on his success at Charleston College; a proposed biography of John Thompson Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the University of Virginia.","Receipt for 65 pounds of ice to Henry Peronneau Brown from Long and Stevens, Petersburg.","Scope and Contents 5 letters. Affectionate letters to her fiance.","Scope and Contents In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents \"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home is so lovely and you are so happy...for its mountain scenery.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning the failing health of their mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","Letter to his sister, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents Eight calling cards in a cover addressed to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is heading him to the madhouse.","Scope and Contents She writes of the ladies making vests and shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees have landed at Hampton; the first of the war casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have just been received which we are to turn our attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing all about. Comments on \"the tennessee company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","Scope and Contents The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this antiquated spot\u0026amp;quot; because her husband was drilling some new troops and sent for her to join him.","From Stanley, the family home, to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in Richmond.","\"...adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of exchanged prisoners...\"","Scope and Contents Written while Henry was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to his sister.","Receipt for wheat delivered. Signed A. Wynne and L. Hatchet.","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian Church at Tappahannock.","A bill brought in Chancery Court by John R. Bryan against H. B. Tomlin, executor of St. George Tucker Coalter. The settlement of the John Randolph estate which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew; recommends that he stop drinking.","Receipt for wages.","2 items. Printed document signed.","Accounts with stores. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written to his sister as he made a start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before as I am now...I have not spent during the whole year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home Remedies.\"","2 items.","4 items. Printed document signed.","Writes of Cassie Tucker, wife of John Thompson Brown III. \"You have introduced into your home a very sunbeam.\"","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\", his sister-in-law, and concerns the death of John Coalter II.","Statement concerning the trust for Mrs. Fanny B. Brown (Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown).","2 items. Autographed document.","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter. There are 6 report cards from The University School, Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a pamphlet of Resolutions Passed in 1894, 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School Act. Many of the letters in the collection are from Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as photographs of some members of the family and pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Captain Henry Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown III. At the end of the box is a notebook containing sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for her son John Thompson Brown III. 80 items. (John Thompson Brown III, son of Henry Peronneau Brown, who married Cassie Tucker, thus reuniting the family with the Tucker line.)","To her son (John Thompson Brown III) urging him to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Report cards from University School, some countersigned by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown. 6 items. Printed document signed. Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown III, when the reports were sent home.","Paper written on Martin Luther.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered through the classical writers.\"","Scope and Contents The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman; the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely restored.\" Beverly Tucker and Braxton Bryan are mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy at Jamestown.","The letters are addressed to \"Thompson\".","Two photographs, one of John Thompson Brown IV and his sister, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, with a servant, Aunt Jane; the other of the house, Ivy Cliff, originally called Otter Hill. Photostat.","Scope and Contents \"...make haste and get well enough to come home where you are much missed.\"","45 items. Printed document signed.","Includes a separate sermon. Autographed draft signed. \"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it carefully and may God have mercy on his soul. Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September 1894.)","Material related to the Brown and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A. Adams are placed at the beginning of the box. Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska, relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member of the family, Captain David Tucker Brown, is represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from France when he was serving as a member of the American Commission to negotiate peace. Seventeen undated items concerning unidentified persons are grouped at the end of the box. 85 items.","15 items.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention, 1901-2.\"","Editorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.","Candidacy for the position of Lieutenant Governor.","Periodical. Pages 125-139. Printed manuscript.","5 items. Newsclippings regarding William B. Allison, Theodore Roosevelt, and \"The Political Situation, 1876-1908\".","Newsclippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker taken from the Nome Daily Nugget, Nome Democrat and Nome Industrial Worker.","Concerning the Farmer's Winter Institute in Agriculture, 1913-1914, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From \"The World\", New York.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. With the \"American Commission to Negotiate Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson Brown IV, of Wilmington.","A proclamation by Westmoreland Davis, Governor. Also Includes a song sheet of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. 2 items.","27 items.","Date unknown.","Revolutionary War service claim, draft on the Bank of Virginia, and article surviving soldier's payments. 3 items. Printed document signed.","\"From private who served you on the memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\"","2 items. Printed document signed.","Invitation from the Royal Geographical Society.","2 items. Autographed draft.","An alphabetical list of flowers with the characteristics of each expressed symbolically.","Newspaper clippings of pictures from engravings, plus some advertisements and copies of publications. Circa 400 items.","20 columns of news clippings from \"Central Presbyterian.\"","3 poems, news clippings and a clipping with sheet music.","Illustrated London News, December 18, 1866.","Christmas supplement from the Illustrated London News, December 18, 1869.","6 clippings of engravings about archaeology.","22 clippings of engravings about farming and husbandry.","8 clippings of engravings of churches destroyed in the Chicago fire.","7 clippings of Civil War engravings.","3 clippings of engravings of zoological topics.","2 clippings of engravings about the Crimea when occupied by Russian.","Supplement to Harper's Monthly.","Weekly cartoons appearing in Harper's Monthly.","14 pages from the April 1872 issue of Hearth and Home.","Clipping of Masthead of Harper's Monthly with an engraving of Clothes and Styles. November 29, 1872.","Cover page of the New York Fireside Companion. November 18, 1873.","Five sections of the November 1873 edition of Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly.","October 18, 1874 pamphlet \"Pastoral Letter\" written by T.D. Witherspoon.","Four clippings of engravings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Family Almanac.","Full June 16, 1877 issue of Illustrated Christian Weekly.","Scope and Contents 1883 Calendar sheet for Hiram Sibley \u0026amp; Co., Seedsman, in color.","Large foldout of the family tree of Queen Victoria from the Illustrated London News, \"Jubilee edition.\"","January 1896 price list for U.S. Stamps by N.E. Carter of Delavan, Wisconsin.","Three color illustrations with a poem.","\"The Golden Horseshoe\" pamphlet with illustrations.","Six book sale advertisements by different publishers.","A completed form for \"self-measurement\" for suits by the company, Noah Walker and Co.","Five advertising cards.","Five advertisements for carriages, ranges, safes, etc.","Five sheets of medical advertisements.","Instructions for playing the Monneuse Turkish Tubephone.","38 page notebook with pasted clippings of engravings of different subjects.","Typed transcriptions prepared by Yolande (Lonnie) Dobbs, of material pertaining to John Thompson Brown in boxes 7 to 19. She chose material to transcribe that would \"provide a fuller picture of Brown, his family and his political career at a time in American and Virginian history when a number of significant events were taking place. The issues of slavery, states rights, tariffs, elections of Senators, the Bank of the United States, presidential elections and the changing political parties were issues of vital importance to John Thompson Brown.\" Transcribed from 1998-2005. CD of transcriptions is available.","Introduction gives genealogical information of the Brown Family, beginning with Henry Brown who died in 1757 in New Jersey. Includes transcriptions of legal transactions, letters and other documents (not from this collection) which show the procession of the Brown Family from New Jersey to parts of Virginia.","Inventory of Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I. Typed and carbon transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Also, handwritten transcriptions that are not typed. Includes notes on possible subject arrangement of the transcriptions. The following folders may loosely follow this order. Includes processing notes, genealogical information and a partial inventory. The project appears to be incomplete. The author of these transcriptions may be Lonny Dobbs.","Two typed carbon inventories of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I, entitled \"...containing papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Harrison County and Petersburg.\"","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters from 1814 to 1822.","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters for 1831.","One typed transcript and one carbon transcript of letters from 1818 to 1824.  Noted as \"Letters of J.T. Brown.\"","One typed transcript, two carbon transcripts and the handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings from J.T. Brown's scrapbook. All from Box 14, Folder 30.","Handwritten transcripts of letters dated from 1831-1835. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganization: This collection is organized into seven series:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker Families;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 is Group B, containing the papers of Capt. 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The material in each subseries may contain the names of various other persons but the most prominent name is the one used to describe the subseries.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization: This collection is organized into seven series:","Series 1 is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker Families;","Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of Capt. Henry Brown and his family;","Series 3 is Group C, containing the papers of John Thompson Brown;","Series 4 is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker Families;","Series 5 contains printed material received with the collection;","Series 6 contains transcriptions of Material Pertaining to John Thompson Brown (1802-1836): Boxes 7-19 by Lonny Dobbs;","Series 7 contains transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), possibly by Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough Barlowe and two copies of the inventory.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into various subseries by family names, personal names or subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the names of various other persons but the most prominent name is the one used to describe the subseries."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNote: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown 1(1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown 2(1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany papers of Henry Brown, Jr. 3(1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown 3(1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. John Thompson Brown II 4(1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Henry Peronneau Brown 4(1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCoalter Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter 1(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker Coalter 2(1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter 2(1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Drewry in 1862 and Charlotte (Drewry) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker 1(1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry St. George Tucker 2(1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tucker 3married Lucy (?). The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. David Hunter Tucker 3married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker 3(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnn Frances Bland Tucker 2(1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Beverley Tucker 2(1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther People\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown 1(1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown 2(1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. 3(1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown 3(1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II 4(1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown 4(1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter 1(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter 2(1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter 2(1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Drewry in 1862 and Charlotte (Drewry) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker 1(1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker 2(1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker 3married Lucy (?). The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker 3married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker 3(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker 2(1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 2(1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People","William Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00051.frame\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00051.frame"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791-1920.941 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B855Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Mss. 65 B855 Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e CDs from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791-1920.941 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B855Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart","Mss. 65 B855 Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)","CDs from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis finding aid is also available in microfilm format in Swem Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003ePapers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge. Boxes 1-6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College.  221 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote concerning the gift \"Received from Mrs. Fleming Saunders, of Evington, Virginia, in exchange for a scholarship grant to Miss Frances Bland Saunders,\" 3 March 1947.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin, as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3. Brown, as connected with Coalter and Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChart of Coalter and Brown families compiled by Jennifer Boone for an honors thesis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSheets of sundry genealogical notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes concerning John Coalter (1769-1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopical poems of this period written by John Coalter, Maria Rind, St. George Tucker, William Munford, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutobiographical sketch of John Coalter until his 18th birthday. Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge County; his responsibility for the farm while his father is away at war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning 40£ per year as usher for John Holt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his new position as tutor to the children of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St. George Tucker to move because the plantation, Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no longer pay John Coalter 30£ per annum; offers to give legal training in exchange for tutoring services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis father hopes that John Coalter will return home, to the higher country, for the \"sickly season.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: See medium oversize file. Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at Dickinson College, and congratulates John Coalter on his chance to study law with St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttending lectures of the Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr. Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want of money to buy another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo young cousins, in custody of Indians for three and six years respectively, were freed by the army in Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Rind, had been studying law with St. George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in the household of St. George Tucker, where she cared for the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning his wedding trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers lacking. John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for a coat and a pair of spectacles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Approval of the Constitution by South Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian War in Georgia. \"Brother Davidis over in Gloucester. If he has success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will be ready to sett (sic) out on our route to the South.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst letter of young Micajah Coalter, who is learning to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Have you been exempted from paying the oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I mean the loss of Health and a good complexion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions John Coalter's desire to return home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses desire to marry and to live on the farm while he is getting started in his law practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...nothing can be expected without riches...however deserving of a better fate the poor always meet with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned at an early age and were helped by the Tuckers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: For letters of 16 June 1790, 4 July 1790, and 7 Sept. 1790 see medium oversize file. 12 letters. His father does not have land to give him at that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has decided to move to Staunton, and continue his studies. In September he writes that he hopes to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and apply for admission to the bar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are written with great difficulty and show a lack of schooling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions \"your quondam charges, Henry, Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me faster in the world than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he, casts a light upon all around him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter has borrowed a horse from him for the trip to Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I...was much pleased to hear of your gallantry but am affeared it has been attended with some accident which occasioned your move to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to establish himself and be in a position to support her as his wife.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: For letters of 6 April 1791 and 15 April 1791 see medium oversize file. 18 letters. After obtaining his license in Williamsburg, John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather have the approbation of that man than worlds for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to the torment by John Randolph; plans are made for their marriage in autumn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to remarry; she wishes to move up the date of their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: For letter of 23 April 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 3 letters. \"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr. Wythe, I live in his house and board at his table...In this happy situation tomorrow I begin the Study of Law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates James Rind on receiving his license to practice law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We visit very often at the different houses in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become Mrs. Tucker.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters. Covers lacking. On the return of a wagon and horses; purchases of additional farm animals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Physical Location: For letter of 22 July 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 4 letters. Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown) was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George Wythe is teaching his servant to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents This law practice is discouraging; entrusts Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscourages John Coalter from coming \"across the Alps\"-- there are too many lawyers already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers lacking. Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe. Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter on his marriage to Maria Rind.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly, and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith. Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children she will be bringing to the marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Description of George Washington delivering an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the uncle of John Thompson Brown.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter, addressed to \"Fan\", was written soon after Mrs. Coalter had gone to Staunton with her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"Fanny\". On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wages are to be 15£ or 20£ per year as a clerk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The letter from Edinburgh contains an interesting description of life in the Scottish capital, the coldness of his fellow students until they are introduced, and his warm reception by a family to which he had a letter of introduction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports that there are about forty students at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W\u0026amp;amp;M,\" and his mother proposes to send him to Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires about Maria and their expected first child. (Both mother and child died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina. The \"distressing news\" that his wife has died in childbirth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar reports; the parade of the Richmond Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsoles John Coalter on the loss of his wife; reports the Independence Day orations at the College of William and Mary, and mentions the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed French immigrants at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe subseries covers the correspondence of John Coalter during his second marriage to Margaret Davenport, and in the early years of his third marriage, to Frances Bland Tucker. Correspondence from St. George Tucker, Mrs. Lelia Tucker, Mrs. Judith Randolph, and others is included. The material traces the legal career of John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk of the Court in Staunton, through the period of his second and third marriages to Margaret Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances Bland Tucker, 1802. Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker, her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and others. Correspondence with William Munford, in Williamsburg, is also included. 164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends John Coalter as Clerk of the Staunton Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of evils has befallen your friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests payment of a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents William Munford has returned to the College of William and Mary, and is \"in constant attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs. Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to lose a newborn child.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking. Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at her character\"; makes insulting statements regarding John Coalter's late wife. John Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny Stuart into court, after which she offers to return John Coalter's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely in indigo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships, including three men of war, five or six frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the presence of the French fleet and a British frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for his law license.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There can be but one in the world\"; for her, but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulations on the occasion of her marriage to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs. Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding divorce of F.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a mare to be serviced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"war\"; and Indian victory are mentioned and a bloody spring season is predicted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg, South Carolina and Louisville, Georgia. Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews before the Georgia Legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention is made of a child expected by Mrs. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences \"on this distressing occasion\"; (the death of John Coalter's second wife in childbirth; the child also died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business letter concerning collections to be made in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe should \"by this time be fatigued with the name of Tucker\"; and that she \"had better look about\" (for a husband).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is from the papers of John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph, half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains that she is \"surrounded by the real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been linked with her sister in the famous scandal proceedings.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a horse in which he is interested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHint of a June wedding for Frances Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fanny B. Tucker has just married John Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at the age of 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters. Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the Warm Springs for her health in September.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The letters are written from Richmond, Elm Grove, and Lexington. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to Williamsburg for the birth of her first child, Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of Lexington Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are written from Williamsburg, Haymarket, and Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Coalter was on the court circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The letters are undated, but are replies to those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eF. Davenport was the mother of the second wife of John Coalter, who continued to live with the Coalters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning deed to property, probably Elm Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaria Carter was a step-daughter of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of obtaining a clerk's position with the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Death of her husband and her straitened circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure his deafness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker set out for Staunton in order to be there for the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents First mention of the second Coalter child, Elizabeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illness of Tudor Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates John Coalter on the birth of his second daughter and the purchase of Elm Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty in buying good house servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial matters, mainly about bank shares and dividends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Randolph's visit to England; her disappointment over his continued deafness Dr. Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over the servants. Illness of Polly the seamstress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $1,230 on bank shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Small pox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the embargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife Evelina has given birth to a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Catherine Coalter was visiting the Coalters at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of her young daughters, Fancilea (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every summer at the medicinal springs for her health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint George Tucker (June 14, 1809) upon the occasion of the birth of his first grandson, St. George Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the academies and colleges of that day. Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; the family then moved to Richmond. There are many letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs. Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and from other members of the family. There also are many letters to the daughters of John Coalter, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances Lelia Coalter in 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the appointment of John Coalter to his position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February 7, 1807).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a visit from the newly married Beverley Tucker and Polly Coalter and writes concerning her sons Saint George and Tudor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written by John Coalter from Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanhawa Court House, and Richmond during spring and autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm Grove, and other matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for planting and penning up of a farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents One of the letters concerns the troubles with the English and the hope for a peaceful settlement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Three letters written from Richmond and Williamsburg. In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter) \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will never descend from the dignity of a private station.\" Concerning the education of his grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our youth, or the management of their tutor, shall undergo a most surprising and happy change in this Country, I had rather he should never hear of an Academy or a College, than enter the walls of one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"She must come to us, as soon as she can leave Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas, that she may complete the clothing of the Negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppeals to James All to represent the district. About the war situation: \"We are more Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our wholetrade to aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we would only give the revenue arising from trade.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Her parents were trying to buy a cook for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These five letters although undated, are believed to have been written in 1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently by the youth of the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Eleven letters written from Richmond and Staunton. John Coalter attending the spring and autumn sittings of the Circuit Court, sends instructions for the management of the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Six letters discuss news of the farm, the slaves, and family. Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm and permission for him to visit his daughter in Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a cook for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavid Coalter, Mary's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters from William McPheeter, J. W. Allison, Joseph C. Cabell, Polly A. Steele, and William Kinney to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter (relatives of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) are placed in one folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The four letters from M.S. Baldwin, M. Bush, Arch. Stuart, and \"M. T.,\" in Richmond and Petersburg, are undated but are presumed to date from 1811, and placed in one folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Five letters written from Lewisburg and Kanahwa. In May, John Coalter writes of his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help me, I know not what to do. All have advised my acceptance.\" In October he writes of arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such long periods when John Coalter is absent on the court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\" their two year old son St. George Tucker Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker strongly advises his brother-in-law against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest assured that no other Judge of the General Court will accept the office which is tendered you.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs. Judith Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action \"is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an Event not far off.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe cover has the date and \"J. Randolph, Jr.\" endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of his \"great and irretrievable loss\" his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th instant.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents She writes that \"the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months.\" Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren of John Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter and St. George Tucker Coalter; their spouses; children and other extended family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence primarily of the two surviving children of John and Francis Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith H. Tomlin Coalter. Includes genealogical material on the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H. Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the collection from this time until her death in 1859. The last letters from their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special note is a letter of October 1831 in which St. George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and misunderstanding in the family, and appears to cast a slur on his step-father St. George Tucker. The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his wife and sister, especially those written from the springs which he visits each year, form the largest single group. In these letters an interesting picture of nineteenth century social life is to be found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents School girl letters written by J. H. T. before her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit to America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate Virgilia Savage in December on her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled, Generous Gentleman.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents St. George Tucker complains about his sight and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in the first of these letters. The last is endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most dear Grandfather's illness and death are omitted and put to themselves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These two letters were written after the death of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\" reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letter is a printed invitation to a ball at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added; the second letter is a Temperance pledge signed by St. George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and three others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Evidently left in charge of his father's estate, Chatham, he writes concerning examinations at the College of William and Mary and of his experiences in vaccinating and performing minor operations on the slaves. (He was a 20 year old farmer with no medical training.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave school to marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is to Judith Tomlin Coalter after her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) made an attack on the Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter), finding no one else would rise to their defense, answered him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring sickness which was to bring on his early death in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter family home, for the birth of her first child, Walker Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he writes describing Randolph's estate and personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and entertains me highly with his conversation on all subjects...He is a man of the finest and nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two letters concerning her husband's financial difficulties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes to his sister about crops, planting, and the like.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter, are infants; this letter is written by St. George Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In the January letter, he announces the birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes on July 27 that \"the shortness of breath and the hacking cough have left me entirely.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Her husband is at the Springs; she would like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says he never wished for money before, as the want of it keeps him from having company...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Charlottesville, White Sulphur Springs, Warm Springs, Sweet Springs, and Salt Sulphur Springs. An interesting group of letters describing life at several of the medicinal springs which were so popular in the 19th century. He describes his daily regimen, the meals, the baths, other tourists, the costs, and the physical characteristics of the resorts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband about family matters while he is at the springs for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A continuation of his previous letters, including a crude drawing of the buildings and grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In November she mentions that Beverley Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe boys, who are just learning to write, add their notes to the letter to their grandfather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Her husband is overworking, and she fears for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a position with a Richmond company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents He writes about his poor health; mentions his uncle, Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Coalter is very much concerned with gold mine projects; he now orders St. George Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has decided that the family shall move closer to him. They are dependent on John Coalter financially.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Life at the springs, his continuing illness and his poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His discouragement as he contemplates the move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven years we have to begin the world afresh and fix and build and lay out and all that -- oh thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent County, to St. George's Park, King William County, and the difficulty of the move.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Coalter is very ill, and the new place is slow in getting established. Mention of the will of John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in which the good name of St. George Tucker is slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of St. George Tucker are also involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Home has not been settled since leaving Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor, with a new house but a very indifferent one.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter was written.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home where his late father John Coalter forced him to move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never financially independent of his father). A doctor's prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal springs and regular exercise. Four months later St. George Tucker Coalter died. The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add to the correspondence as the years go on, for the families are very attached to one another and there is much visiting back and forth as well as letter writing. The letters of the cousins have been combined in this collection, so that an interesting picture is given of the life of this period; see a report of a traveling entertainer who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8 February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a Girl's school (2 February 1852). There is much discussion of diseases which were prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning.\" (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, \"The last line I ever got from him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Of her poverty and of the need for means to educate her children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing the birth of a child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the coldest and most melancholy place in the world.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes to get a place from the sale of the estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a long time not to have a house to call your own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the Randolph estate are not fulfilled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so, perhaps, some money may have been received from the Randolph estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 9-year old writes of attending a dance at Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take dancing lesson of 2 hours length every Saturday.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Consumption and Cholera are discussed as well as the final division of the estate. Mrs. Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of her own. Sons John and Henry left in September for the University of Virginia where they room with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J. Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A dreadful affair has lately occurred at the University, one young man killed another, both intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as that is, it takes the cold blooded yankees to perpetrate the refinement of barbarism in stewing, and boiling...living people...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that he has had charge of the harvest at the farm because the overseer was sick. He has also advised the local doctors on Cholera cures: \"Mama received your letter by the last post and was much obliged to you for the copy you sent her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it reached here I have copied it twice for different doctors who seemed much pleased with the proscription (sic).\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA beautiful description of the Cove and the island as seen from the Eagle Point house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the affectionate relationship between the two continued for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Lacy's are preparing to move into Ellwood, the former summer home of John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written before and after a long visit. There were ties between the families despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter fears her youngest son, Saint George, has Typhoid fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs. Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Cover lacking. About life in the great houses of Virginia, excursions on river boats, dances, and the like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a man from a woman. They go about in this costume for some time and have a dance...one gentleman went draped as a lady and no one found him out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his beads...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"When will your new house, or rather, new home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's mother has finally been able to buy a house, Stanley.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"My dear Cousin\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a lastingpeace and the welfare of my children preys very much on my spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Coalter is attending a school conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorses note from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress on the improvements at Ellwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s school have reached us from different quarters and report says Jinney and yourself acted a conspicuous part.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A school friend writes of her textbooks: \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French Studies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes a most interesting account of trip by boat from Gloucester County, via Jamestown, to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's youngest child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's school writes back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn offer to abate charges so that Fanny B. Coalter could remain in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites that he has stood his examination for license to practice law; reports on his brothers and sisters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school; her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families were brought together into one. The collection gives an interesting picture of the life and interests of a young lady of moderate circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr. Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with Fanny, although he was a married man with several children. The correspondence became more ardent in the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there. According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton, she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June 1856, and 19 March 1857. Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors, however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854, a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year later there are reports of her interest in the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg, both of whom were courting her. She finally settled on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage invitation are included in this box. Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II, brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude \"by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter, as subsequent correspondence show.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is addressed to \"My own dear Aunt\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"My dear sister\". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA proposal of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George is now in school at Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstruction work to be done at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNow a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\u0026amp;amp;quot; and \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrouble in: finding a teacher for her children; \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those \"distracting springs\u0026amp;amp;quot; for invalids.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe solution to a problem in surveying (this may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter was rumored to be engaged).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny Bland Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs in charge of the plantation since her mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace Lacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeronneau Brown and his brother, Thompson, are mentioned. (See letters of December 1855, Box-folder 6:44-45.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his daughters during his absence in the south.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas charge of the large plantation, keeping four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver busy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has not changed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to the commencement party at Hampden Sidney College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccompanying his uncle on a business trip, he has visited the main cities of the south and attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess that I have been rather disappointed in the people that live in these rich lands--they are as rough as possible...live in log houses and on the very poorest fare.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I suppose your wedding will be postponed unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually rapid.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P. Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I approve of your choice...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough affection for the old name to lay claim to it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he cannot attend the wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The King Wm. and Hanover Charaders. Positively their last appearance. At Stanley on Friday evening the 9th this brilliant Company....Ticket 1 ct., children and servants half price.\" A home performance by the Coalter and Bryan cousins. This item is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These covers are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr. Boxes 7 - 13.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and business papers of Capt. Henry Brown, Revolutionary War veteran who opened a store in Bedford County, in 1793; Papers of Capt. Brown as Collector of Federal taxes on stills and real property. The Brown family papers begin with the letters and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), successful merchant of Bedford County and Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers are collected in the next section (Boxes 14-19). A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown, are included. The great bulk of the material, however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he opened a general store in Bedford soon after the conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the business, is preserved and the bulk of the material in this box pertains to the business of the store. A good picture of early merchandising is given by the accounts, letters relating to buying and selling trips, and the court actions taken to collect accounts. Beginning with folder 60, there are 39 items relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to 1803. 160 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Your friends here tremble for you and apprehend the worst from the dangers that encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping knife, tomahawk...return to us in all speed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle, found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning goods for a retail store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote for ll.9.3£, witnessed by Jack Beverley. Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1 September, 1793.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes letter from Israel Thompson regarding saddle goods in stock at the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommission of Daniel Brown as Ensign in a Company of Light Infantry, signed by Samuel Coleman and James Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts to Henry Brown for recording a deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to enter into a partnership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Richmond, Georgetown, and Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedicines received by Henry Brown from Howard Bennett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages. Unsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrrown's accounts as Tax Collector of the Bedford district.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his brother concerning tobacco prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning business affairs a suit for debt, purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had made you a Captain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecording a deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBonds in hands of Jeremiah Jenkins for collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of the new officers of the Farmer's Bank in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the division of Negroes, total value £815, between Leftwich and the Brown brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding loss of West India produce on which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear our loss will be considerable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns from the Regimental hospital of the 35th U.S. Infantry. Sig. William W. Southall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John Roberts on land that Captain Henry Brown sold to William Woodford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20 and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want of prudence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaxes collected by Robert Snoddy, in Bedford. 14 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstract of duties collected from owners of stills and distilleries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for monies received by James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Directions for sending tax collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter includes a copy of Federal instructions to tax collectors. 3 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted documents signed. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers include accounts, letters, notes, vouchers, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts concerning the Hancock and Brown store, Lynchburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the suit of Brown and Clayton vs. Pleasant Murphy, Bedford County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Henry Brown had many interests in his long life apart from the purely commercial activities upon which his considerable fortune was built. Included in this box are the papers relating to his other interests: Papers of Captain Henry Brown as Sheriff of Bedford County, Treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and of the New London Agricultural Society, and as executor of the estates of his brother, Daniel Brown, and father-in-law, John Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of subscriptions to the repair and improvement of New London Academy meeting house, Bedford County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from Brown's service as Treasurer of the New London Agricultural Society, Bedford County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of Daniel Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of John Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness papers of Henry Brown, not directly connected with any of his various business enterprises, but concerned principally with court suits involving debts to him. Included is an interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of trust of all his property to his creditors (11 April 1829 and 6 July 1833). Also includes papers concerned with the suit of Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840. Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning and releasing\" Leftwich.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness papers of Henry Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHousehold, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHousehold, family and personal bills of Henry Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars in Florida, where he served after he was commissioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his return from the Spring; attack of \"bilious Cholic\" and his treatment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the purchase of some land at $20 per acre...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe husband of Nancy Brown writes: \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvice on a move to the State of Ohio. \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe building of his house and the health of his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe value of the Deerwood tract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her visit to Washington: \"this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaving for New York to lay in goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: \"The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes about her marriage and the first meeting with her new relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brown is the son of Samuel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his marriage to Alice Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Alexander (Lockie T. Brown) Irvine is her sister. Her wedding trip to New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer sickness on the way down the river due to fresh paint in the boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaniel Brown is the son of Samuel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning eventual conversion of Baptists to the Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown is her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and reach George Town. The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans the day before I left-he was not married but expected to be the 9th of April.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the happy father of a fine boy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport to his father of his first grades at the Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his grandfather regarding his first term marks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"The first two years of our course are exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\" Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course of Studies at the Military Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Oklawaka River and St. Augustine, Florida. \"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it, this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid description of St. Augustine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Rose's Landing, Tennessee; Savannah, Georgia; and off Cape Hatteras. Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 letters. Total of 12 pages. Typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren of Captain Henry Brown: letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Captain Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and other members of the immediate family. Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his eyesight, went into the partnership of his father with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this part of the collection include a 44 page book of mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24 July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836). The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May 1836), are also included. The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the card which announced the opening of his law office in Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22 January 1842, mentions the business failures taking place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August of the same year comments on the national political situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\" 128 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\" (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this time, though he continued to suffer from the ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39 years.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note for $1,000.00. At this time he was getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson Brown from the members of the House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the business of Col. [Mark] Anthony, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears to be involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions the marriage of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr., for use on his trip to England and the Continent in that year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written to her husband on his trip. \"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him home).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews from a letter she received from Henry Brown, Jr. in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out of a slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"It's really a sad case for me, to be sick from home and away from all that (are) Dear to me...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown, Jr. was associated until he opened his own store in 1835. Includes autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Brother-in-law, Jack Willcox; his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a debt of Thomas Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed draft. Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from the time of one of the buying trips that Henry Brown, Jr. made with his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter breaking from the partnership of Hancock and Brown, he opened his own store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Cover lost. Concerning the care for his horses, Young American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written while she and her husband were on a buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York, Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned. Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown during the final days in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and selling horses in order to settle the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfile by Professor William B. Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note regarding the settlement of the Henry Brown, Jr. estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown is his mother. Written from school, with endorsement by James Morrison, schoolmaster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Eleanor C. L. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. Guilford Brown is her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharge slips for failing to attend army musters between 1829 and 1839, 1839. 10 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel T. Brown is his his brother-in-law. Letter congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Alexander Irvine is her her sister-in-law. She writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her father, with whom she is living and for whom she is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful bride.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of the statement concerning the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis extended wedding trip; description of General Harrison's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt cost voucher recording transfer of 400 acres from Henry Brown to Samuel T. Brown, with tax receipt. 2 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter sent care of Judge Crawford at St. Stephens, Alabama. Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the death of W. W. Worthington, brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecording certain deeds for his son-in-law, Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned draft. Written to his overseer with whom he has quarreled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the payment of a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts of a letter to Mark Andrews. 2 items. Concerning the cutting of trees on the property of Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA reply to the above letter, Box-Folder 13:60.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel T. Brown is her brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstimate for the cost of the construction of a bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for postal expenses, April-June, 1849, signed H. Stevens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased by Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The sale of a female slave \"with her Brood.\" Samuel T. Brown is Edward Robinson's brother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820; traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican (now Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief illness. The first two letters in Box 14 date from the period of his attendance at New London Academy; then follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination before the faculty, and received the highest mark given at the College, in each of the three years he spent at the College. His report sheets show the requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and contain a resolution passed by the trustees which condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in town. Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in this period is interesting for the comments it contains on the Missouri question and other matters then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his collegiate period may be compared with his statements on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of the House of Delegates. After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions. Upon his return he took up the study of law with Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\" \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the trip West which reveal his first impressions of the Clarksburg area. At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing some of his published writings, speeches, and newspaper articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent...\" Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBehavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) \"If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class.\" (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\" Concerning Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew 162 fellow students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the \"present session of Congress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed: \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are the continuous drafts of a multiple of letters, continued July 8, 1831, Petersburg. The first section consists of musings and youthful recollections; the second is a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Alexander M. Jackson, at New London, to John Thompson Brown, regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes made at Judge Taylor's Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice law in the superior and inferior courts of this Commonwealth (Virginia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings on friendship and the wise behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter introducing John Thompson Brown when he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 pages. Musings written on a trip through Virginia: thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter were to be incorporated into an Independence Day address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people have no money and are wretchedly poor and lazy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis plans to establish himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe following newspaper clippings and pamphlets are included in a bound scrap book, with endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by John Thompson Brown himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the disclosure of his poverty...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"several cases of contempt of court, occurring in various parts of the Union, in which the punishment inflicted, has been made a subject of grievous complaint.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"The President's message.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\" signed John Thompson Brown\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The following copy of a Petition to the Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the request of a number of our Citizens.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 pages. \"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and addressed the house as follows:...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of the Commonwealth, to the stock of the Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time. Mr. Brown said...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then submitted the following Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President). Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the following by way of substitute for the above...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence while Brown established himself in Clarksburg, and while representing Harrison County in the General Assembly. The material in this box covers the period 1825 to 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the Clarksburg Enquirer, contained in the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr. Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825). In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This box also contains various printed and manuscript material touching upon his career in the General Assembly. By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and planned to buy into a partnership in a store to advance his financial position. In a letter of March 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next election for the U.S. Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses success spoken of and the probability of Clay's being made Secretary of State...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs, which his father apparently requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA flowery letter to an old friend from Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation at the bar and a practice that supports me very decently.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of an address to an investigating group (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a good and sufficient jail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is part of a printed letter concerning \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\" over the signature Alexander. (See bound scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesire of John Thompson Brown to run for the U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00 to help achieve this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe, a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the Legislature.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the next election...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn announcement of the candidacy of John Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He reviews what he considers to be the most important problems of the day, and discusses (1) the invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the calling of a Constitutional Convention for the state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the uncontrolled banking system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His election to the General Assembly; hope of election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in the debates of the House and do not expect to do so...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe note is \"in regard to the question whether Clinton or Calhoun should run as Vice-President on the Jackson ticket\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ride to Richmond in a coach with other, more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of state.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title: \"Report of a Committee Appointed To Enquire Into The Nature And Extent Of The Evils Arising From The Present Unsettled State Of Land Titles On The Western Waters Of Virginia, And To Devise A Remedy Therefor, With Leave To Report A Bill Or Otherwise\" 6 pages. 2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition to the General Assembly for a divorce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition to the General Assembly for a divorce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Resolving that members of the House of Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the cause of this Society before the General Assembly of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered the most able one that had been delivered in the House in 5 years.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are pleased to express so deep an interest, is I believe, making sure progress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis legislature activities and speeches. \"I am a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a copy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Deptartment F 247 H3B73. The second copy is located in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, under the same call number as above. 17 pages. A report to his constituents on such matters as (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court, (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the committee on this subject, which he chaired, and the bill proposed by the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComment on the land titles, Chancery court bills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I could desire and shall support myself hereafter without any further drafts on your goodness...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he discusses his prospects for Congress and of his plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder appointing John Thompson Brown Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Virginia Militia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes are initialed \"J. T. B.'s\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword Tactics.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflections on people met at the Medicinal Springs, as contrasted with those of his constituency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's commission to his father. During the year he borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father has agreed to advance enough capital for him to become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the General Assembly, he writes that he will be a candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed last session authorizing the county court to levy a tax for repairing roads and bridges.\" On March 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he predicts that the basis of votes for whites will be surrendered in the formation of the new State constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests they ride together to Alexandria, then go to Richmond by boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall among the rest...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from after his marriage to Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg (May 1830), and his move to that city, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1831. Also includes over one hundred toasts given at various occasions. The change which was to occur in the life and fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg circa December 1829, in which there is a discussion of \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (March 18, 1830) in a letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next letter in the collection (May 9, 1830), in draft, contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which was attended by no members of his immediate family. Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (July 22, 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the intention of resettling there and sending for his wife (May 2, 1831). During a four week visit to Harrison County, he finds his political position has declined (June 7, 1831), so he returns to Petersburg, and is invited to make the Independence Day address for the town (June 8, 1831). As a result of this address (and the good influence of his father-in-law) he is nominated to represent the town in the House of Delegates, and is elected without opposition (September 26, 1831). He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg Office of the Bank of Virginia (December 29, 1831), and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which is being established in Richmond (October 20, 1831). Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew outlining his philosophy of life and advising the young man on his future (October 3, 1831). A report of the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described in a letter of September 26, 1831. At the end of this box are collected more than a hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was cut down in the bud and You, my sweetest Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others believed I could certainly be elected to Congress next Spring...I wish to appear at P[etersburg]in a manner which would probably be expected and to avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution. Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if you can spare this additional sum you may hand it over to him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected and I cannot say that there was any other allay to my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my near relatives were present.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr. Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going to N. York to the races. They came with us thus far...\" There is much discussion about where they will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall reside in Petersburg...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his Washington visit: \"we remained a week, were introduced to the President, etc., heard some interesting debates and saw all the great men of the nation...My situation is in all respects agreeable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on her marriage coupled with much advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I have nothing to add on the subject of my future arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you seemed to approve when we were together.\" He writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to them his town house \"furnished with servants\u0026amp;amp;quot;; in another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500 and said that I should always have as much as I wanted...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends advice to his younger brother and, and account of his own situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters from Harrison County report that \"the District needs me badly...but it is too late...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I regret that you have temporarily declined public life--for I would not believe you have abondoned it altogether.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autographed draft. Advice given to a young man summarizing John Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that my position here was to be too dependent...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"At a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown, Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed drafts. The first important public speech of John Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears to have established his reputation, and which influenced his decision to remain there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his Independence Day address; the wisdom of his brother's decision to visit England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: See 25 April 1822, Box-folder 14:21, These are the continuous drafts of multiple letters. This draft concerns the second part which contains a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On July 25, he states that his brother has left on the packet for Baltimore on the way to Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On September 14 he writes that his wife has given birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau, \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A letter from Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown to John Thompson Brown encloses the letter from Henry Brown Jr. Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a result of which \"I become more and more an American in feeling and principle...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I was elected without opposition after announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton (Nat Turner), \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and children.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his opinions on the education of his nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in some measure of the prejudice against them--but think nevertheless that...southern firewould be none the worse for being somewhat cooled by the northern frost.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA new newspaper is proposed for the city of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to \"sharpers.\" Endorsed by Windham Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes the quarters he has for his wife and son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I think no measure can or ought to be taken now for the abolition of slavery...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the bill now before the Legislature on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of John Thompson Brown in the items included in this box. A member from Petersburg in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson Brown was placed in a position of leadership and strongly influenced the decisions taken in those critical years. His speech on the abolition of slavery was considered so important that Judge Henry St. George Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia delegation to the national convention of the Republican Party; his resolution of the Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the question of President Jackson's moves against the United States Bank was of particular concern to him (9 April 1833). Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his substitute motion on the question is included in this box, as well as his speech on The State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina, delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet form. John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S. Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified by years or experience (December 1832). An interesting report of his meeting with President Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson Brown to his wife (23 May 1832). Also included in this box are letters from John Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer (7 February, 3 March 1833). Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are included at the end of this box. 81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Murray Mason (1798-1871).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Finley's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of engrossing interest...South Carolina is unquestionably wrong and as long as she remains in the Union, must obey its laws...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Doc. No. 14. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. Mr. Marshall's Substitute to the Report... Doc. No. 16. Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina, the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the communication of the governor of this Commonwealth on the same subject.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivered January 5, 1833. Richmond: Thomas W. White, printer. 1833. 42 pages. 3 copies. After stating his opposition to protective tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent of the Constitution, rather than a violation of its literal principles.\" He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the United States on his general policy but disputes the Proclamation of the President on other grounds, basing his argument on The Law of Nationsby E. de Vattel. As to the action of South Carolina, he contends that there is no possibility of nullification under the Constitution, but that the redress of the wrong done in the tariff act must come by recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\" acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an amendment to the Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Substitute Submitted By Mr. Brown, Petersburg, For the Amended Report of the Committee on Federal Relations\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompliments John Thompson Brown on his resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I was anxious myself that Virginia should maintain an impartial and just attitude toward both S. Carolina and the President, but far the greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I thought there was error on both sides...\" He remarks that Edward [Steptoe]has been successful in getting his appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr. Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\u0026amp;amp;quot; but \"without...your letter...the application could scarcely have been successful.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies. Printed manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point; report of the enforcing bill in the President's proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In July he announces the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe two items are signed Julian. \"On seeing Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by John Thompson Brown about this period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Thompson Brown, Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by John Thompson Brown during portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions of the General Assembly. The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the legislative battle fought and lost against the Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown believed would have disastrous effects on the future of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy the rough and tumble of party politics then developing. Also of interest are the draft of a speech delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates (January 1835). 44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews that his brother, Samuel, is ill at Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on his progress at the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in the Assembly; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not dead.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA patent for producing domestic salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElection of a U.S. Senator, for which he has been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end of February and beginning of March he is kept in bed with an illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his views of the political situation, mentioning the message President Jackson sent to Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which he will bring with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's brother, to start his study of law with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn J. Allen (1797-1871)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sold bank shares to help his brother go into business for himself; gives advice on racing horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a speech delivered in Petersburg on the occasion of the death of Lafayette. 43 pages. Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of his progress at the U.S. Military Academy. John Thompson Brown is the uncle of Edward J. Steptoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a letter sending condolences for the death of a sister and congratulations on the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His resignation from the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"No subject arouses anybody except the senatorial election.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe offers to place all his monetary resources at the service of his brother in his new business venture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters, 1 draft. On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter, which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a fight in the halls of the General Assembly between himself and John Hampden Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of apology for the battle fought in the halls of the Virginia Capitol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of his speech which was \"better received than anything I have ever made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA speech \"...upon the Election of a Senator in Congress: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia\". 28 pages. Printed book. Points out the importance of this election for \"future political events and party combinations in the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr. Leigh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Thompson Brown. 70 pages. Autographed Manuscript. Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of the House of Deputies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on taxes, license fees, and the like, prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates. 116 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from February 1835, until his death in November 1836; manuscripts of four articles written to oppose the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President. The closing sessions of the State Legislature of 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a street fight with an opponent in which he receives a black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins the election (April 1835). Before the next session of the legislature, John Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more material on the question of slavery (August 1835), and prepared three long drafts written in opposition to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are included at the end of the 1835 section. Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store. The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of his brother, and his activity in settling his brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the letters included in this box. At the end of July he takes his family to his father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which keeps him there until his death on 26 November 1836. 104 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a son, John Thompson Brown II, and tells his brother that he had ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the store that he had opened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Political activity in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"The Jackson party has brought out the most popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite likely he will beat me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\" There is also a report of a street fight between John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chances of Van Buren to carry Virginia in the election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlans to retire from politics and seek a position as Judge of the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has sent a box of books to help him in his law studies, and describes a visit by his old friend Peronneau Finley and his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his father about plans to visit him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Drafts on the subject of the northern resolutions on slavery, particularly those recently passed in Portland and Boston. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family discussion, especially concerned with the sisters who were yet to find husbands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the election of John Thompson Brown as an honorary member of the Jefferson Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe content is on the stand of Mr. Van Buren on emancipation. 28 numbered columns. Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on this topic.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on this topic. Also includes an additional 2 page insertion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on this topic. The series of drafts is in opposition to Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President of the United States. 48 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood reports of the new business venture of his brother, Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his brother, on a buying trip to New York; political prospects now look bright, but \"the state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommission as Captain in the Cavalry of the Virginia Militia. Signed by Wyndham Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Captain John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Thompson Brown writes five letters from Hobson's Inn, Homes, Otter Hills, and Lynchburg. On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his Lynchburg store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that morning for Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Taking inventory at the store of his late brother; preparing to settle his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports on the stocktaking in the store of Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the last letter from John Thompson Brown to his father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was taken with the illness from which he died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the disposal of the store inventory; sends a piano to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMourning his brother's death, he makes arrangements for his own family to join him. (This is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown preserved in this collection.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her uncle regarding the recent death of her father, Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes regarding the settling of the store business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John Thompson Brown, 29 years\" envelope marked, \"For sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave, Nov. 13th, 1845, Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington,\" with clover leaves inside.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Robert B. Bolling, Chairman. A resolution in memory of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution that the members wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John Thompson Brown, by William A. Dod.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the unanimous resolution of the House of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her father-in-law. Mrs. Mary E. Brown is the widow of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn service as Executors of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the region around Bedford, Virginia. 40 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 pages. Draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autographed draft. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bounties offered for Indian scalps in Bedford between 1755 and 1758.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction details.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman. There are also nineteenth century engravings. Boxes 20 - 24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4, 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to submit. John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by the members of his company (December 1, 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and belt (April 23, 1861) mark the beginning of action, and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a transfer to a more active field of war and an extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The box concludes with items which appear to have been on the person of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, when he was killed in action on 6 May 1864. 83 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 pages. Draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReferences to Douglas and the threat to slavery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on ammunition on hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a suggestion for winter furloughs in order to extend the length of service in the fighting season.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by West and Johnson, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a dispute arising between the two over John Thompson Brown's command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by W. H. Taylor and Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton. 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for whitewashing two rooms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest the return of his report on the battle of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to General Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook containing several commissions, leather bound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies. Printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph poem and newspaper text; \"Lines written on seeing 'Rifle' the war-horse of Col. J. T. B....\" from the Richmond Dispatch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe marker titled \"Thompson Brown\" has blue ribbons attached.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She expresses concern that her son is more interested in affairs other than his studies (March 1, 1849). His school career is traced briefly through his years at the University of Virginia (June 28, 1851). The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau Brown and his fiancee, Frances Bland Coalter, 1858, lead into the family correspondence which completes this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker Papers.) From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern farmer to re-establish himself after the war. 108 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written to Samuel T. Brown while he was in Charleston, South Carolina and New London, Virginia. The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is attending school in South Carolina. He was devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of college life and not enough to his studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulating him on his success at Charleston College; a proposed biography of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for 65 pounds of ice to Henry Peronneau Brown from Long and Stevens, Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 5 letters. Affectionate letters to her fiance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home is so lovely and you are so happy...for its mountain scenery.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the failing health of their mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Cover lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of an infant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to his sister, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Eight calling cards in a cover addressed to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is heading him to the madhouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents She writes of the ladies making vests and shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees have landed at Hampton; the first of the war casualties in the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have just been received which we are to turn our attention to at once.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis house was set afire and cannon are firing all about. Comments on \"the tennessee company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this antiquated spot\u0026amp;amp;quot; because her husband was drilling some new troops and sent for her to join him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Stanley, the family home, to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir brother, Henry, is at a camp near Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown and others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of exchanged prisoners...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written while Henry was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to his sister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wheat delivered. Signed A. Wynne and L. Hatchet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for someone to serve the Presbyterian Church at Tappahannock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bill brought in Chancery Court by John R. Bryan against H. B. Tomlin, executor of St. George Tucker Coalter. The settlement of the John Randolph estate which was in litigation for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefuses a request for $500 by his nephew; recommends that he stop drinking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts with stores. 3 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote written on an early \"penny post card.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written to his sister as he made a start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before as I am now...I have not spent during the whole year on myself more than $10...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later to marry John Thompson Brown III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home Remedies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of Cassie Tucker, wife of John Thompson Brown III. \"You have introduced into your home a very sunbeam.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"Fanny\", his sister-in-law, and concerns the death of John Coalter II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement concerning the trust for Mrs. Fanny B. Brown (Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this box concerning John Thompson Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter. There are 6 report cards from The University School, Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a pamphlet of Resolutions Passed in 1894, 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School Act. Many of the letters in the collection are from Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as photographs of some members of the family and pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Captain Henry Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown III. At the end of the box is a notebook containing sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for her son John Thompson Brown III. 80 items. (John Thompson Brown III, son of Henry Peronneau Brown, who married Cassie Tucker, thus reuniting the family with the Tucker line.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her son (John Thompson Brown III) urging him to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and say your prayers every day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA description of the London Museum and Zoo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport cards from University School, some countersigned by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown. 6 items. Printed document signed. Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown III, when the reports were sent home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper written on Martin Luther.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Bible reading as the antidote for \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered through the classical writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman; the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are in the care of Mrs. Coleman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA child's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely restored.\" Beverly Tucker and Braxton Bryan are mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy at Jamestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are addressed to \"Thompson\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs, one of John Thompson Brown IV and his sister, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, with a servant, Aunt Jane; the other of the house, Ivy Cliff, originally called Otter Hill. Photostat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"...make haste and get well enough to come home where you are much missed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a separate sermon. Autographed draft signed. \"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it carefully and may God have mercy on his soul. Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September 1894.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterial related to the Brown and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A. Adams are placed at the beginning of the box. Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska, relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member of the family, Captain David Tucker Brown, is represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from France when he was serving as a member of the American Commission to negotiate peace. Seventeen undated items concerning unidentified persons are grouped at the end of the box. 85 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention, 1901-2.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEditorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCandidacy for the position of Lieutenant Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeriodical. Pages 125-139. Printed manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Newsclippings regarding William B. Allison, Theodore Roosevelt, and \"The Political Situation, 1876-1908\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsclippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker taken from the Nome Daily Nugget, Nome Democrat and Nome Industrial Worker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the Farmer's Winter Institute in Agriculture, 1913-1914, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom \"The World\", New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking. With the \"American Commission to Negotiate Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson Brown IV, of Wilmington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA proclamation by Westmoreland Davis, Governor. Also Includes a song sheet of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. 2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDate unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary War service claim, draft on the Bank of Virginia, and article surviving soldier's payments. 3 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"From private who served you on the memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation from the Royal Geographical Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn alphabetical list of flowers with the characteristics of each expressed symbolically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings of pictures from engravings, plus some advertisements and copies of publications. Circa 400 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 columns of news clippings from \"Central Presbyterian.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 poems, news clippings and a clipping with sheet music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated London News, December 18, 1866.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristmas supplement from the Illustrated London News, December 18, 1869.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 clippings of engravings about archaeology.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 clippings of engravings about farming and husbandry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 clippings of engravings of churches destroyed in the Chicago fire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 clippings of Civil War engravings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 clippings of engravings of zoological topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 clippings of engravings about the Crimea when occupied by Russian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSupplement to Harper's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeekly cartoons appearing in Harper's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages from the April 1872 issue of Hearth and Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClipping of Masthead of Harper's Monthly with an engraving of Clothes and Styles. 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Carter of Delavan, Wisconsin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree color illustrations with a poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Golden Horseshoe\" pamphlet with illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSix book sale advertisements by different publishers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA completed form for \"self-measurement\" for suits by the company, Noah Walker and Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive advertising cards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive advertisements for carriages, ranges, safes, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive sheets of medical advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for playing the Monneuse Turkish Tubephone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 page notebook with pasted clippings of engravings of different subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped transcriptions prepared by Yolande (Lonnie) Dobbs, of material pertaining to John Thompson Brown in boxes 7 to 19. She chose material to transcribe that would \"provide a fuller picture of Brown, his family and his political career at a time in American and Virginian history when a number of significant events were taking place. The issues of slavery, states rights, tariffs, elections of Senators, the Bank of the United States, presidential elections and the changing political parties were issues of vital importance to John Thompson Brown.\" Transcribed from 1998-2005. CD of transcriptions is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction gives genealogical information of the Brown Family, beginning with Henry Brown who died in 1757 in New Jersey. Includes transcriptions of legal transactions, letters and other documents (not from this collection) which show the procession of the Brown Family from New Jersey to parts of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInventory of Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I. Typed and carbon transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Also, handwritten transcriptions that are not typed. Includes notes on possible subject arrangement of the transcriptions. The following folders may loosely follow this order. Includes processing notes, genealogical information and a partial inventory. The project appears to be incomplete. The author of these transcriptions may be Lonny Dobbs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo typed carbon inventories of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I, entitled \"...containing papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Harrison County and Petersburg.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters from 1814 to 1822.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters for 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript and one carbon transcript of letters from 1818 to 1824.  Noted as \"Letters of J.T. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript, two carbon transcripts and the handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings from J.T. Brown's scrapbook. 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William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","This finding aid is also available in microfilm format in Swem Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge. Boxes 1-6.","The series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College.  221 items.","Note concerning the gift \"Received from Mrs. Fleming Saunders, of Evington, Virginia, in exchange for a scholarship grant to Miss Frances Bland Saunders,\" 3 March 1947.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin, as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3. Brown, as connected with Coalter and Tucker.","Chart of Coalter and Brown families compiled by Jennifer Boone for an honors thesis.","Sheets of sundry genealogical notes.","Notes concerning John Coalter (1769-1838).","Topical poems of this period written by John Coalter, Maria Rind, St. George Tucker, William Munford, and others.","Autobiographical sketch of John Coalter until his 18th birthday. Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge County; his responsibility for the farm while his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning 40£ per year as usher for John Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St. George Tucker to move because the plantation, Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no longer pay John Coalter 30£ per annum; offers to give legal training in exchange for tutoring services.","His father hopes that John Coalter will return home, to the higher country, for the \"sickly season.\"","Physical Location: See medium oversize file. Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at Dickinson College, and congratulates John Coalter on his chance to study law with St. George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr. Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for three and six years respectively, were freed by the army in Detroit.","James Rind, had been studying law with St. George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in the household of St. George Tucker, where she cared for the children.","Concerning his wedding trip.","Covers lacking. John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Scope and Contents Approval of the Constitution by South Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian War in Georgia. \"Brother Davidis over in Gloucester. If he has success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will be ready to sett (sic) out on our route to the South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I mean the loss of Health and a good complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the farm while he is getting started in his law practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without riches...however deserving of a better fate the poor always meet with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned at an early age and were helped by the Tuckers.)","Physical Location: For letters of 16 June 1790, 4 July 1790, and 7 Sept. 1790 see medium oversize file. 12 letters. His father does not have land to give him at that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has decided to move to Staunton, and continue his studies. In September he writes that he hopes to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great difficulty and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry, Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me faster in the world than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he, casts a light upon all around him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your gallantry but am affeared it has been attended with some accident which occasioned your move to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to establish himself and be in a position to support her as his wife.)","Physical Location: For letters of 6 April 1791 and 15 April 1791 see medium oversize file. 18 letters. After obtaining his license in Williamsburg, John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather have the approbation of that man than worlds for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to the torment by John Randolph; plans are made for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to remarry; she wishes to move up the date of their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by him...\"","Physical Location: For letter of 23 April 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 3 letters. \"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr. Wythe, I live in his house and board at his table...In this happy situation tomorrow I begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become Mrs. Tucker.\"","2 letters. Covers lacking. On the return of a wagon and horses; purchases of additional farm animals.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: For letter of 22 July 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 4 letters. Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown) was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","Scope and Contents This law practice is discouraging; entrusts Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across the Alps\"-- there are too many lawyers already.","Covers lacking. Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe. Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly, and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith. Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children she will be bringing to the marriage.","Scope and Contents Description of George Washington delivering an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter, addressed to \"Fan\", was written soon after Mrs. Coalter had gone to Staunton with her husband.","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\". On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Scope and Contents Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or 20£ per year as a clerk.","Scope and Contents The letter from Edinburgh contains an interesting description of life in the Scottish capital, the coldness of his fellow students until they are introduced, and his warm reception by a family to which he had a letter of introduction.","Scope and Contents Reports that there are about forty students at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W\u0026amp;M,\" and his mother proposes to send him to Harvard.","Enquires about Maria and their expected first child. (Both mother and child died.)","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina. The \"distressing news\" that his wife has died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his wife; reports the Independence Day orations at the College of William and Mary, and mentions the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed French immigrants at Norfolk.","The subseries covers the correspondence of John Coalter during his second marriage to Margaret Davenport, and in the early years of his third marriage, to Frances Bland Tucker. Correspondence from St. George Tucker, Mrs. Lelia Tucker, Mrs. Judith Randolph, and others is included. The material traces the legal career of John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk of the Court in Staunton, through the period of his second and third marriages to Margaret Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances Bland Tucker, 1802. Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker, her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and others. Correspondence with William Munford, in Williamsburg, is also included. 164 items.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","Scope and Contents William Munford has returned to the College of William and Mary, and is \"in constant attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs. Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to lose a newborn child.\"","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at her character\"; makes insulting statements regarding John Coalter's late wife. John Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny Stuart into court, after which she offers to return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships, including three men of war, five or six frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the presence of the French fleet and a British frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\"; for her, but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to her.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on the occasion of her marriage to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs. Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding divorce of F.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\"; and Indian victory are mentioned and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg, South Carolina and Louisville, Georgia. Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs. Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"; (the death of John Coalter's second wife in childbirth; the child also died.)","Scope and Contents Business letter concerning collections to be made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with the name of Tucker\"; and that she \"had better look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph, half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been linked with her sister in the famous scandal proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances Tucker.","Scope and Contents Fanny B. Tucker has just married John Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at the age of 18.","Scope and Contents Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters. Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the Warm Springs for her health in September.","Scope and Contents The letters are written from Richmond, Elm Grove, and Lexington. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to Williamsburg for the birth of her first child, Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of Lexington Academy.","The letters are written from Williamsburg, Haymarket, and Fredericksburg.","Scope and Contents John Coalter was on the court circuit.","Scope and Contents The letters are undated, but are replies to those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second wife of John Coalter, who continued to live with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St. George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Scope and Contents Death of her husband and her straitened circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure his deafness.","Scope and Contents In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker set out for Staunton in order to be there for the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents First mention of the second Coalter child, Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of his second daughter and the purchase of Elm Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her disappointment over his continued deafness Dr. Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over the servants. Illness of Polly the seamstress.","Scope and Contents Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","Scope and Contents John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","Scope and Contents The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary Coalter.","Scope and Contents Small pox.","Scope and Contents Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter).","Scope and Contents Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every summer at the medicinal springs for her health.","Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint George Tucker (June 14, 1809) upon the occasion of the birth of his first grandson, St. George Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the academies and colleges of that day. Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; the family then moved to Richmond. There are many letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs. Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and from other members of the family. There also are many letters to the daughters of John Coalter, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married Beverley Tucker and Polly Coalter and writes concerning her sons Saint George and Tudor.","Scope and Contents Letters written by John Coalter from Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanhawa Court House, and Richmond during spring and autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm Grove, and other matters.","Instructions for planting and penning up of a farm.","Scope and Contents One of the letters concerns the troubles with the English and the hope for a peaceful settlement.","Scope and Contents Three letters written from Richmond and Williamsburg. In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter) \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will never descend from the dignity of a private station.\" Concerning the education of his grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our youth, or the management of their tutor, shall undergo a most surprising and happy change in this Country, I had rather he should never hear of an Academy or a College, than enter the walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"She must come to us, as soon as she can leave Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas, that she may complete the clothing of the Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the district. About the war situation: \"We are more Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our wholetrade to aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we would only give the revenue arising from trade.\"","Scope and Contents Her parents were trying to buy a cook for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great success.","Scope and Contents These five letters although undated, are believed to have been written in 1810.","Scope and Contents Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently by the youth of the town.","Scope and Contents Eleven letters written from Richmond and Staunton. John Coalter attending the spring and autumn sittings of the Circuit Court, sends instructions for the management of the farm.","Scope and Contents Six letters discuss news of the farm, the slaves, and family. Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm and permission for him to visit his daughter in Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","David Coalter, Mary's father.","Scope and Contents Letters from William McPheeter, J. W. Allison, Joseph C. Cabell, Polly A. Steele, and William Kinney to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter (relatives of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) are placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents The four letters from M.S. Baldwin, M. Bush, Arch. Stuart, and \"M. T.,\" in Richmond and Petersburg, are undated but are presumed to date from 1811, and placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents Five letters written from Lewisburg and Kanahwa. In May, John Coalter writes of his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help me, I know not what to do. All have advised my acceptance.\" In October he writes of arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","Scope and Contents In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such long periods when John Coalter is absent on the court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\" their two year old son St. George Tucker Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest assured that no other Judge of the General Court will accept the office which is tendered you.\"","Scope and Contents John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs. Judith Randolph.","Scope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.","Scope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.","Scope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action \"is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an Event not far off.\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.","Scope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.","Scope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.","Scope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Scope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","The cover has the date and \"J. Randolph, Jr.\" endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\" his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th instant.\"","Scope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)","Scope and Contents She writes that \"the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months.\" Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.","Scope and Contents Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","Scope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.","Children of John Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter and St. George Tucker Coalter; their spouses; children and other extended family","Correspondence primarily of the two surviving children of John and Francis Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith H. Tomlin Coalter. Includes genealogical material on the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H. Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the collection from this time until her death in 1859. The last letters from their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special note is a letter of October 1831 in which St. George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and misunderstanding in the family, and appears to cast a slur on his step-father St. George Tucker. The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his wife and sister, especially those written from the springs which he visits each year, form the largest single group. In these letters an interesting picture of nineteenth century social life is to be found.","Typescript.","Scope and Contents School girl letters written by J. H. T. before her marriage.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit to America.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate Virgilia Savage in December on her marriage.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled, Generous Gentleman.\"","Scope and Contents Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents St. George Tucker complains about his sight and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in the first of these letters. The last is endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most dear Grandfather's illness and death are omitted and put to themselves.\"","Scope and Contents These two letters were written after the death of St. George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\" reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.","Scope and Contents The first letter is a printed invitation to a ball at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added; the second letter is a Temperance pledge signed by St. George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and three others.","Scope and Contents Evidently left in charge of his father's estate, Chatham, he writes concerning examinations at the College of William and Mary and of his experiences in vaccinating and performing minor operations on the slaves. (He was a 20 year old farmer with no medical training.)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave school to marry.","The letter is to Judith Tomlin Coalter after her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) made an attack on the Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter), finding no one else would rise to their defense, answered him...\"","Scope and Contents His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring sickness which was to bring on his early death in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter family home, for the birth of her first child, Walker Tomlin Coalter.","Scope and Contents In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he writes describing Randolph's estate and personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and entertains me highly with his conversation on all subjects...He is a man of the finest and nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning her husband's financial difficulties.","Scope and Contents Writes to his sister about crops, planting, and the like.","Scope and Contents The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter, are infants; this letter is written by St. George Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents In the January letter, he announces the birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes on July 27 that \"the shortness of breath and the hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Scope and Contents Her husband is at the Springs; she would like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says he never wished for money before, as the want of it keeps him from having company...\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Charlottesville, White Sulphur Springs, Warm Springs, Sweet Springs, and Salt Sulphur Springs. An interesting group of letters describing life at several of the medicinal springs which were so popular in the 19th century. He describes his daily regimen, the meals, the baths, other tourists, the costs, and the physical characteristics of the resorts.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband about family matters while he is at the springs for his health.","Scope and Contents A continuation of his previous letters, including a crude drawing of the buildings and grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","Scope and Contents In November she mentions that Beverley Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write, add their notes to the letter to their grandfather.","Scope and Contents Her husband is overworking, and she fears for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a position with a Richmond company.","Scope and Contents He writes about his poor health; mentions his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very much concerned with gold mine projects; he now orders St. George Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has decided that the family shall move closer to him. They are dependent on John Coalter financially.","Scope and Contents Life at the springs, his continuing illness and his poverty.","Scope and Contents His discouragement as he contemplates the move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven years we have to begin the world afresh and fix and build and lay out and all that -- oh thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent County, to St. George's Park, King William County, and the difficulty of the move.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very ill, and the new place is slow in getting established. Mention of the will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in which the good name of St. George Tucker is slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of St. George Tucker are also involved.","Scope and Contents Home has not been settled since leaving Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor, with a new house but a very indifferent one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home where his late father John Coalter forced him to move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never financially independent of his father). A doctor's prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal springs and regular exercise. Four months later St. George Tucker Coalter died. The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add to the correspondence as the years go on, for the families are very attached to one another and there is much visiting back and forth as well as letter writing. The letters of the cousins have been combined in this collection, so that an interesting picture is given of the life of this period; see a report of a traveling entertainer who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8 February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a Girl's school (2 February 1852). There is much discussion of diseases which were prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","Scope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.","Scope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning.\" (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.","Scope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down.\"","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me out.\"","Autographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, \"The last line I ever got from him.\"","(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.","Unsigned and undated.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.","Scope and Contents Of her poverty and of the need for means to educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Scope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.","Scope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)","Scope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him...\"","Scope and Contents He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the coldest and most melancholy place in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Hopes to get a place from the sale of the estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a long time not to have a house to call your own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so, perhaps, some money may have been received from the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take dancing lesson of 2 hours length every Saturday.\"","Scope and Contents Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Consumption and Cholera are discussed as well as the final division of the estate. Mrs. Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of her own. Sons John and Henry left in September for the University of Virginia where they room with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J. Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A dreadful affair has lately occurred at the University, one young man killed another, both intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as that is, it takes the cold blooded yankees to perpetrate the refinement of barbarism in stewing, and boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that he has had charge of the harvest at the farm because the overseer was sick. He has also advised the local doctors on Cholera cures: \"Mama received your letter by the last post and was much obliged to you for the copy you sent her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it reached here I have copied it twice for different doctors who seemed much pleased with the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the affectionate relationship between the two continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into Ellwood, the former summer home of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Letters written before and after a long visit. There were ties between the families despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter fears her youngest son, Saint George, has Typhoid fever.","Scope and Contents A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs. Washington.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking. About life in the great houses of Virginia, excursions on river boats, dances, and the like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a man from a woman. They go about in this costume for some time and have a dance...one gentleman went draped as a lady and no one found him out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his beads...\"","Scope and Contents \"When will your new house, or rather, new home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's mother has finally been able to buy a house, Stanley.)","The letter is addressed to \"My dear Cousin\".","Scope and Contents Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a lastingpeace and the welfare of my children preys very much on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s school have reached us from different quarters and report says Jinney and yourself acted a conspicuous part.\"","Scope and Contents A school friend writes of her textbooks: \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French Studies.\"","Scope and Contents Includes a most interesting account of trip by boat from Gloucester County, via Jamestown, to Richmond.","Scope and Contents The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's youngest child.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B. Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for license to practice law; reports on his brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school; her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families were brought together into one. The collection gives an interesting picture of the life and interests of a young lady of moderate circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr. Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with Fanny, although he was a married man with several children. The correspondence became more ardent in the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there. According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton, she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June 1856, and 19 March 1857. Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors, however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854, a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year later there are reports of her interest in the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg, both of whom were courting her. She finally settled on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage invitation are included in this box. Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II, brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.","Scope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude \"by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter, as subsequent correspondence show.)","Letter is addressed to \"My own dear Aunt\".","The letter is addressed to \"My dear sister\". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Scope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend.\"","Scope and Contents \"I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Covers lacking.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.","Scope and Contents To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\u0026amp;quot; and \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children; \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those \"distracting springs\u0026amp;quot; for invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Scope and Contents Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace Lacy.\"","Peronneau Brown and his brother, Thompson, are mentioned. (See letters of December 1855, Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has not changed.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden Sidney College.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he has visited the main cities of the south and attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess that I have been rather disappointed in the people that live in these rich lands--they are as rough as possible...live in log houses and on the very poorest fare.\"","Scope and Contents \"I suppose your wedding will be postponed unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P. Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I approve of your choice...\"","Scope and Contents \"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough affection for the old name to lay claim to it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","\"The King Wm. and Hanover Charaders. Positively their last appearance. At Stanley on Friday evening the 9th this brilliant Company....Ticket 1 ct., children and servants half price.\" A home performance by the Coalter and Bryan cousins. This item is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These covers are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr. Boxes 7 - 13.","Correspondence and business papers of Capt. Henry Brown, Revolutionary War veteran who opened a store in Bedford County, in 1793; Papers of Capt. Brown as Collector of Federal taxes on stills and real property. The Brown family papers begin with the letters and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), successful merchant of Bedford County and Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers are collected in the next section (Boxes 14-19). A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown, are included. The great bulk of the material, however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he opened a general store in Bedford soon after the conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the business, is preserved and the bulk of the material in this box pertains to the business of the store. A good picture of early merchandising is given by the accounts, letters relating to buying and selling trips, and the court actions taken to collect accounts. Beginning with folder 60, there are 39 items relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to 1803. 160 items.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and apprehend the worst from the dangers that encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping knife, tomahawk...return to us in all speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle, found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Note for ll.9.3£, witnessed by Jack Beverley. Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1 September, 1793.\"","Scope and Contents Includes letter from Israel Thompson regarding saddle goods in stock at the store.","Commission of Daniel Brown as Ensign in a Company of Light Infantry, signed by Samuel Coleman and James Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Receipts to Henry Brown for recording a deed.","Agreement to enter into a partnership.","Letters written from Richmond, Georgetown, and Baltimore.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia","Medicines received by Henry Brown from Howard Bennett.","14 pages. Unsigned.","Brrown's accounts as Tax Collector of the Bedford district.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt, purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had made you a Captain.\"","Recording a deed.","Bonds in hands of Jeremiah Jenkins for collection.","Includes a list of the new officers of the Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total value £815, between Leftwich and the Brown brothers.","Printed document signed.","Regarding loss of West India produce on which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear our loss will be considerable.\"","Returns from the Regimental hospital of the 35th U.S. Infantry. Sig. William W. Southall","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John Roberts on land that Captain Henry Brown sold to William Woodford.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20 and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want of prudence.\"","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Taxes collected by Robert Snoddy, in Bedford. 14 pages.","Includes printed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Abstract of duties collected from owners of stills and distilleries","Receipts for monies received by James.","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Directions for sending tax collections.","20 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","28 pages.","Letter includes a copy of Federal instructions to tax collectors. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Printed documents signed. Autographed draft.","Business records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.","Papers include accounts, letters, notes, vouchers, etc.","Accounts concerning the Hancock and Brown store, Lynchburg, Virginia.","Papers relating to the suit of Brown and Clayton vs. Pleasant Murphy, Bedford County, Virginia.","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his long life apart from the purely commercial activities upon which his considerable fortune was built. Included in this box are the papers relating to his other interests: Papers of Captain Henry Brown as Sheriff of Bedford County, Treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and of the New London Agricultural Society, and as executor of the estates of his brother, Daniel Brown, and father-in-law, John Thompson.","Accounts of subscriptions to the repair and improvement of New London Academy meeting house, Bedford County.","Records from Brown's service as Treasurer of the New London Agricultural Society, Bedford County.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of Daniel Brown.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of John Thompson.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly connected with any of his various business enterprises, but concerned principally with court suits involving debts to him. Included is an interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of trust of all his property to his creditors (11 April 1829 and 6 July 1833). Also includes papers concerned with the suit of Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840. Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning and releasing\" Leftwich.","Business papers of Henry Brown","Household, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.","Household, family and personal bills of Henry Brown","Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars in Florida, where he served after he was commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of \"bilious Cholic\" and his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20 per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes: \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio. \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)","Scope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.","Scope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.","Henry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Scope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)","William Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: \"The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel.\"","Scope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)","Henry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Scope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.","Scope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","Scope and Contents The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes about her marriage and the first meeting with her new relatives.","William Brown is the son of Samuel.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Mrs. Alexander (Lockie T. Brown) Irvine is her sister. Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to fresh paint in the boat.","Daniel Brown is the son of Samuel.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to the Presbyterian Church.","Henry Brown is her father.","Scope and Contents \"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and reach George Town. The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans the day before I left-he was not married but expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term marks.","Scope and Contents \"The first two years of our course are exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\" Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Oklawaka River and St. Augustine, Florida. \"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it, this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid description of St. Augustine.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Rose's Landing, Tennessee; Savannah, Georgia; and off Cape Hatteras. Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","8 letters. Total of 12 pages. Typescript.","Children of Captain Henry Brown: letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Captain Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and other members of the immediate family. Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his eyesight, went into the partnership of his father with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this part of the collection include a 44 page book of mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24 July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836). The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May 1836), are also included. The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the card which announced the opening of his law office in Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22 January 1842, mentions the business failures taking place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August of the same year comments on the national political situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\" 128 items.","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\" (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this time, though he continued to suffer from the ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39 years.)","A note for $1,000.00. At this time he was getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson Brown from the members of the House of Delegates.","Scope and Contents Concerning the business of Col. [Mark] Anthony, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears to be involved.","Includes autographed document signed.","44 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Mentions the marriage of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr., for use on his trip to England and the Continent in that year.","56 pages","Scope and Contents Letters written to her husband on his trip. \"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him home).","News from a letter she received from Henry Brown, Jr. in England.","Scope and Contents Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out of a slave.","\"It's really a sad case for me, to be sick from home and away from all that (are) Dear to me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown, Jr. was associated until he opened his own store in 1835. Includes autographed document.","Scope and Contents Brother-in-law, Jack Willcox; his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Includes autographed draft. Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from the time of one of the buying trips that Henry Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock and Brown, he opened his own store.","Scope and Contents Cover lost. Concerning the care for his horses, Young American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is away.","Scope and Contents Written while she and her husband were on a buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York, Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and died.","Unsigned. Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown during the final days in New York.","Scope and Contents An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and selling horses in order to settle the estate.","Profile by Professor William B. Rogers.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry Brown, Jr. estate.","Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown is his mother. Written from school, with endorsement by James Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","H. Guilford Brown is her son.","Charge slips for failing to attend army musters between 1829 and 1839, 1839. 10 items. Printed document signed.","Samuel T. Brown is his his brother-in-law. Letter congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Mrs. Alexander Irvine is her her sister-in-law. She writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her father, with whom she is living and for whom she is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful bride.\"","Draft of the statement concerning the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","His extended wedding trip; description of General Harrison's house.","Court cost voucher recording transfer of 400 acres from Henry Brown to Samuel T. Brown, with tax receipt. 2 items. Printed document signed.","Letter sent care of Judge Crawford at St. Stephens, Alabama. Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","A letter of consolation.","Scope and Contents On the death of W. W. Worthington, brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law, Samuel T. Brown.","Unsigned draft. Written to his overseer with whom he has quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","Agreement for the payment of a debt.","Drafts of a letter to Mark Andrews. 2 items. Concerning the cutting of trees on the property of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder 13:60.","Samuel T. Brown is her brother.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a bridge.","Receipt for postal expenses, April-June, 1849, signed H. Stevens.","Scope and Contents On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased by Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents The sale of a female slave \"with her Brood.\" Samuel T. Brown is Edward Robinson's brother-in-law.","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820; traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican (now Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief illness. The first two letters in Box 14 date from the period of his attendance at New London Academy; then follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination before the faculty, and received the highest mark given at the College, in each of the three years he spent at the College. His report sheets show the requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and contain a resolution passed by the trustees which condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in town. Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in this period is interesting for the comments it contains on the Missouri question and other matters then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his collegiate period may be compared with his statements on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of the House of Delegates. After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions. Upon his return he took up the study of law with Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\" \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the trip West which reveal his first impressions of the Clarksburg area. At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing some of his published writings, speeches, and newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary.\"","Scope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.","Scope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University.\"","Scope and Contents \"My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent...\" Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) \"If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class.\" (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.","Scope and Contents \"Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\" Concerning Lynchburg.","Scope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.","John Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Scope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.","John Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.","A Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","The content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.","\"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed: \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple of letters, continued July 8, 1831, Petersburg. The first section consists of musings and youthful recollections; the second is a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Letter from Alexander M. Jackson, at New London, to John Thompson Brown, regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Notes made at Judge Taylor's Law School.","License to practice law in the superior and inferior courts of this Commonwealth (Virginia).","Musings on friendship and the wise behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","44 pages. Musings written on a trip through Virginia: thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter were to be incorporated into an Independence Day address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Scope and Contents Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people have no money and are wretchedly poor and lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets are included in a bound scrap book, with endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of court, occurring in various parts of the Union, in which the punishment inflicted, has been made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","Report of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia","Speech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\" signed John Thompson Brown\".","\"The following copy of a Petition to the Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the request of a number of our Citizens.\"","32 pages. \"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of the Commonwealth, to the stock of the Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time. Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then submitted the following Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President). Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the following by way of substitute for the above...\"","Correspondence while Brown established himself in Clarksburg, and while representing Harrison County in the General Assembly. The material in this box covers the period 1825 to 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the Clarksburg Enquirer, contained in the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr. Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825). In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This box also contains various printed and manuscript material touching upon his career in the General Assembly. By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and planned to buy into a partnership in a store to advance his financial position. In a letter of March 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses success spoken of and the probability of Clay's being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs, which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation at the bar and a practice that supports me very decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\" over the signature Alexander. (See bound scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00 to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe, a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He reviews what he considers to be the most important problems of the day, and discusses (1) the invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the calling of a Constitutional Convention for the state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the uncontrolled banking system.","Scope and Contents His election to the General Assembly; hope of election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in the debates of the House and do not expect to do so...\"","The note is \"in regard to the question whether Clinton or Calhoun should run as Vice-President on the Jackson ticket\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other, more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of state.\"","Full title: \"Report of a Committee Appointed To Enquire Into The Nature And Extent Of The Evils Arising From The Present Unsettled State Of Land Titles On The Western Waters Of Virginia, And To Devise A Remedy Therefor, With Leave To Report A Bill Or Otherwise\" 6 pages. 2 copies.","3 copies.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Autographed document.","Autographed document.","\"Resolving that members of the House of Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the cause of this Society before the General Assembly of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered the most able one that had been delivered in the House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are pleased to express so deep an interest, is I believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a copy...\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Deptartment F 247 H3B73. The second copy is located in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, under the same call number as above. 17 pages. A report to his constituents on such matters as (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court, (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the committee on this subject, which he chaired, and the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court bills.","Scope and Contents \"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I could desire and shall support myself hereafter without any further drafts on your goodness...\"","Scope and Contents Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he discusses his prospects for Congress and of his plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Order appointing John Thompson Brown Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Virginia Militia.","5 items. Autographed document.","Notes are initialed \"J. T. B.'s\".","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal Springs, as contrasted with those of his constituency.","Scope and Contents In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's commission to his father. During the year he borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father has agreed to advance enough capital for him to become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the General Assembly, he writes that he will be a candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed last session authorizing the county court to levy a tax for repairing roads and bridges.\" On March 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he predicts that the basis of votes for whites will be surrendered in the formation of the new State constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall among the rest...\"","Correspondence from after his marriage to Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg (May 1830), and his move to that city, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1831. Also includes over one hundred toasts given at various occasions. The change which was to occur in the life and fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg circa December 1829, in which there is a discussion of \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (March 18, 1830) in a letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next letter in the collection (May 9, 1830), in draft, contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which was attended by no members of his immediate family. Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (July 22, 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the intention of resettling there and sending for his wife (May 2, 1831). During a four week visit to Harrison County, he finds his political position has declined (June 7, 1831), so he returns to Petersburg, and is invited to make the Independence Day address for the town (June 8, 1831). As a result of this address (and the good influence of his father-in-law) he is nominated to represent the town in the House of Delegates, and is elected without opposition (September 26, 1831). He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg Office of the Bank of Virginia (December 29, 1831), and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which is being established in Richmond (October 20, 1831). Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew outlining his philosophy of life and advising the young man on his future (October 3, 1831). A report of the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described in a letter of September 26, 1831. At the end of this box are collected more than a hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was cut down in the bud and You, my sweetest Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others believed I could certainly be elected to Congress next Spring...I wish to appear at P[etersburg]in a manner which would probably be expected and to avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution. Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if you can spare this additional sum you may hand it over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected and I cannot say that there was any other allay to my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my near relatives were present.\"","Scope and Contents On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr. Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going to N. York to the races. They came with us thus far...\" There is much discussion about where they will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week, were introduced to the President, etc., heard some interesting debates and saw all the great men of the nation...My situation is in all respects agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with much advice.","Scope and Contents After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I have nothing to add on the subject of my future arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you seemed to approve when we were together.\" He writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to them his town house \"furnished with servants\u0026amp;quot;; in another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500 and said that I should always have as much as I wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and account of his own situation.","Scope and Contents Letters from Harrison County report that \"the District needs me badly...but it is too late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined public life--for I would not believe you have abondoned it altogether.\"","Scope and Contents Autographed draft. Advice given to a young man summarizing John Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","Scope and Contents On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown, Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","Autographed drafts. The first important public speech of John Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears to have established his reputation, and which influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the wisdom of his brother's decision to visit England.","Physical Location: See 25 April 1822, Box-folder 14:21, These are the continuous drafts of multiple letters. This draft concerns the second part which contains a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Scope and Contents On July 25, he states that his brother has left on the packet for Baltimore on the way to Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On September 14 he writes that his wife has given birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau, \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Scope and Contents A letter from Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown to John Thompson Brown encloses the letter from Henry Brown Jr. Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a result of which \"I become more and more an American in feeling and principle...\"","Scope and Contents \"I was elected without opposition after announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton (Nat Turner), \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in some measure of the prejudice against them--but think nevertheless that...southern firewould be none the worse for being somewhat cooled by the northern frost.\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to \"sharpers.\" Endorsed by Windham Robertson.","Scope and Contents Describes the quarters he has for his wife and son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I think no measure can or ought to be taken now for the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia in Petersburg.","Two speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of John Thompson Brown in the items included in this box. A member from Petersburg in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson Brown was placed in a position of leadership and strongly influenced the decisions taken in those critical years. His speech on the abolition of slavery was considered so important that Judge Henry St. George Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia delegation to the national convention of the Republican Party; his resolution of the Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the question of President Jackson's moves against the United States Bank was of particular concern to him (9 April 1833). Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his substitute motion on the question is included in this box, as well as his speech on The State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina, delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet form. John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S. Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified by years or experience (December 1832). An interesting report of his meeting with President Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson Brown to his wife (23 May 1832). Also included in this box are letters from John Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer (7 February, 3 March 1833). Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are included at the end of this box. 81 items.","Scope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.","Scope and Contents \"My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.","James Murray Mason (1798-1871).","Scope and Contents \"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","Scope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.","Scope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of engrossing interest...South Carolina is unquestionably wrong and as long as she remains in the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.","2 items. Autographed draft.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.","Scope and Contents \"I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech...\"","4 pages. Doc. No. 14. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. Mr. Marshall's Substitute to the Report... Doc. No. 16. Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina, the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the communication of the governor of this Commonwealth on the same subject.\"","Delivered January 5, 1833. Richmond: Thomas W. White, printer. 1833. 42 pages. 3 copies. After stating his opposition to protective tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent of the Constitution, rather than a violation of its literal principles.\" He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the United States on his general policy but disputes the Proclamation of the President on other grounds, basing his argument on The Law of Nationsby E. de Vattel. As to the action of South Carolina, he contends that there is no possibility of nullification under the Constitution, but that the redress of the wrong done in the tariff act must come by recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\" acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an amendment to the Constitution.","\"Substitute Submitted By Mr. Brown, Petersburg, For the Amended Report of the Committee on Federal Relations\"","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his resolutions.","Scope and Contents \"I was anxious myself that Virginia should maintain an impartial and just attitude toward both S. Carolina and the President, but far the greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I thought there was error on both sides...\" He remarks that Edward [Steptoe]has been successful in getting his appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr. Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\u0026amp;quot; but \"without...your letter...the application could scarcely have been successful.\"","2 copies. Printed manuscript.","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point; report of the enforcing bill in the President's proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","Scope and Contents In July he announces the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","The two items are signed Julian. \"On seeing Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by John Thompson Brown about this period.","Written by John Thompson Brown, Petersburg.","Letters written by John Thompson Brown during portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions of the General Assembly. The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the legislative battle fought and lost against the Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown believed would have disastrous effects on the future of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy the rough and tumble of party politics then developing. Also of interest are the draft of a speech delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates (January 1835). 44 items.","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","Scope and Contents His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in the Assembly; family news.","Scope and Contents \"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end of February and beginning of March he is kept in bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation, mentioning the message President Jackson sent to Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which he will bring with him.\"","Scope and Contents Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's brother, to start his study of law with him.","John J. Allen (1797-1871)","Scope and Contents Sold bank shares to help his brother go into business for himself; gives advice on racing horses.","Draft of a speech delivered in Petersburg on the occasion of the death of Lafayette. 43 pages. Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military Academy. John Thompson Brown is the uncle of Edward J. Steptoe.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the death of a sister and congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","Scope and Contents \"No subject arouses anybody except the senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources at the service of his brother in his new business venture.","3 letters, 1 draft. On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter, which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a fight in the halls of the General Assembly between himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better received than anything I have ever made.\"","A speech \"...upon the Election of a Senator in Congress: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia\". 28 pages. Printed book. Points out the importance of this election for \"future political events and party combinations in the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr. Leigh.","Written by John Thompson Brown. 70 pages. Autographed Manuscript. Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like, prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates. 116 pages.","Letters from February 1835, until his death in November 1836; manuscripts of four articles written to oppose the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President. The closing sessions of the State Legislature of 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a street fight with an opponent in which he receives a black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins the election (April 1835). Before the next session of the legislature, John Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more material on the question of slavery (August 1835), and prepared three long drafts written in opposition to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are included at the end of the 1835 section. Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store. The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of his brother, and his activity in settling his brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the letters included in this box. At the end of July he takes his family to his father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which keeps him there until his death on 26 November 1836. 104 items.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson Brown II, and tells his brother that he had ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the store that he had opened.","Scope and Contents Political activity in Petersburg.","Scope and Contents \"The Jackson party has brought out the most popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite likely he will beat me.\"","Scope and Contents On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\" There is also a report of a street fight between John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his law studies, and describes a visit by his old friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit him.","Scope and Contents Drafts on the subject of the northern resolutions on slavery, particularly those recently passed in Portland and Boston. 3 items.","4 items. Autographed draft.","Scope and Contents Family discussion, especially concerned with the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown as an honorary member of the Jefferson Society.","The content is on the stand of Mr. Van Buren on emancipation. 28 numbered columns. Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","Notes on this topic.","Notes on this topic. Also includes an additional 2 page insertion.","Notes on this topic. The series of drafts is in opposition to Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President of the United States. 48 pages.","Good reports of the new business venture of his brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York; political prospects now look bright, but \"the state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Commission as Captain in the Cavalry of the Virginia Militia. Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","Signed Captain John Thompson Brown.","Scope and Contents John Thompson Brown writes five letters from Hobson's Inn, Homes, Otter Hills, and Lynchburg. On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown, Jr.","Scope and Contents Taking inventory at the store of his late brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Scope and Contents Reports on the stocktaking in the store of Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the last letter from John Thompson Brown to his father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes arrangements for his own family to join him. (This is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her uncle regarding the recent death of her father, Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John Thompson Brown, 29 years\" envelope marked, \"For sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave, Nov. 13th, 1845, Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington,\" with clover leaves inside.","Signed Robert B. Bolling, Chairman. A resolution in memory of John Thompson Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John Thompson Brown, by William A. Dod.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her father-in-law. Mrs. Mary E. Brown is the widow of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of consolation.","In service as Executors of John Thompson Brown.","Drafts.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the region around Bedford, Virginia. 40 pages.","16 pages. Draft.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Incomplete.","The bounties offered for Indian scalps in Bedford between 1755 and 1758.","11 items. Autographed document.","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction details.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman. There are also nineteenth century engravings. Boxes 20 - 24.","Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4, 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to submit. John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by the members of his company (December 1, 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and belt (April 23, 1861) mark the beginning of action, and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a transfer to a more active field of war and an extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The box concludes with items which appear to have been on the person of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, when he was killed in action on 6 May 1864. 83 items.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.","58 pages. Draft.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball...\"","2 copies.","3 items.","Report on ammunition on hand.","3 items.","2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.","4 items.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.","3 items.","Draft of a suggestion for winter furloughs in order to extend the length of service in the fighting season.","Published by West and Johnson, Richmond.","4 items.","13 items.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two over John Thompson Brown's command.","Signed by W. H. Taylor and Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton. 4 items.","Scope and Contents 4 items.","4 items. Autographed document signed.","Receipt for whitewashing two rooms.","Request the return of his report on the battle of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to General Stuart.","4 items.","Papers which appear to have been on John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Gift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County","Book containing several commissions, leather bound.","2 copies. Printed material.","5 items. Newspaper clipping.","Autograph poem and newspaper text; \"Lines written on seeing 'Rifle' the war-horse of Col. J. T. B....\" from the Richmond Dispatch.","The marker titled \"Thompson Brown\" has blue ribbons attached.","The papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She expresses concern that her son is more interested in affairs other than his studies (March 1, 1849). His school career is traced briefly through his years at the University of Virginia (June 28, 1851). The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau Brown and his fiancee, Frances Bland Coalter, 1858, lead into the family correspondence which completes this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker Papers.) From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern farmer to re-establish himself after the war. 108 items.","Scope and Contents Letters written to Samuel T. Brown while he was in Charleston, South Carolina and New London, Virginia. The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is attending school in South Carolina. He was devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of college life and not enough to his studies.","Scope and Contents Congratulating him on his success at Charleston College; a proposed biography of John Thompson Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the University of Virginia.","Receipt for 65 pounds of ice to Henry Peronneau Brown from Long and Stevens, Petersburg.","Scope and Contents 5 letters. Affectionate letters to her fiance.","Scope and Contents In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents \"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home is so lovely and you are so happy...for its mountain scenery.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning the failing health of their mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","Letter to his sister, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents Eight calling cards in a cover addressed to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is heading him to the madhouse.","Scope and Contents She writes of the ladies making vests and shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees have landed at Hampton; the first of the war casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have just been received which we are to turn our attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing all about. Comments on \"the tennessee company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","Scope and Contents The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this antiquated spot\u0026amp;quot; because her husband was drilling some new troops and sent for her to join him.","From Stanley, the family home, to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in Richmond.","\"...adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of exchanged prisoners...\"","Scope and Contents Written while Henry was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to his sister.","Receipt for wheat delivered. Signed A. Wynne and L. Hatchet.","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian Church at Tappahannock.","A bill brought in Chancery Court by John R. Bryan against H. B. Tomlin, executor of St. George Tucker Coalter. The settlement of the John Randolph estate which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew; recommends that he stop drinking.","Receipt for wages.","2 items. Printed document signed.","Accounts with stores. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written to his sister as he made a start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before as I am now...I have not spent during the whole year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home Remedies.\"","2 items.","4 items. Printed document signed.","Writes of Cassie Tucker, wife of John Thompson Brown III. \"You have introduced into your home a very sunbeam.\"","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\", his sister-in-law, and concerns the death of John Coalter II.","Statement concerning the trust for Mrs. Fanny B. Brown (Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown).","2 items. Autographed document.","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter. There are 6 report cards from The University School, Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a pamphlet of Resolutions Passed in 1894, 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School Act. Many of the letters in the collection are from Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as photographs of some members of the family and pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Captain Henry Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown III. At the end of the box is a notebook containing sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for her son John Thompson Brown III. 80 items. (John Thompson Brown III, son of Henry Peronneau Brown, who married Cassie Tucker, thus reuniting the family with the Tucker line.)","To her son (John Thompson Brown III) urging him to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Report cards from University School, some countersigned by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown. 6 items. Printed document signed. Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown III, when the reports were sent home.","Paper written on Martin Luther.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered through the classical writers.\"","Scope and Contents The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman; the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely restored.\" Beverly Tucker and Braxton Bryan are mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy at Jamestown.","The letters are addressed to \"Thompson\".","Two photographs, one of John Thompson Brown IV and his sister, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, with a servant, Aunt Jane; the other of the house, Ivy Cliff, originally called Otter Hill. Photostat.","Scope and Contents \"...make haste and get well enough to come home where you are much missed.\"","45 items. Printed document signed.","Includes a separate sermon. Autographed draft signed. \"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it carefully and may God have mercy on his soul. Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September 1894.)","Material related to the Brown and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A. Adams are placed at the beginning of the box. Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska, relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member of the family, Captain David Tucker Brown, is represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from France when he was serving as a member of the American Commission to negotiate peace. Seventeen undated items concerning unidentified persons are grouped at the end of the box. 85 items.","15 items.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention, 1901-2.\"","Editorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.","Candidacy for the position of Lieutenant Governor.","Periodical. Pages 125-139. Printed manuscript.","5 items. Newsclippings regarding William B. Allison, Theodore Roosevelt, and \"The Political Situation, 1876-1908\".","Newsclippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker taken from the Nome Daily Nugget, Nome Democrat and Nome Industrial Worker.","Concerning the Farmer's Winter Institute in Agriculture, 1913-1914, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From \"The World\", New York.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. With the \"American Commission to Negotiate Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson Brown IV, of Wilmington.","A proclamation by Westmoreland Davis, Governor. Also Includes a song sheet of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. 2 items.","27 items.","Date unknown.","Revolutionary War service claim, draft on the Bank of Virginia, and article surviving soldier's payments. 3 items. Printed document signed.","\"From private who served you on the memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\"","2 items. Printed document signed.","Invitation from the Royal Geographical Society.","2 items. Autographed draft.","An alphabetical list of flowers with the characteristics of each expressed symbolically.","Newspaper clippings of pictures from engravings, plus some advertisements and copies of publications. Circa 400 items.","20 columns of news clippings from \"Central Presbyterian.\"","3 poems, news clippings and a clipping with sheet music.","Illustrated London News, December 18, 1866.","Christmas supplement from the Illustrated London News, December 18, 1869.","6 clippings of engravings about archaeology.","22 clippings of engravings about farming and husbandry.","8 clippings of engravings of churches destroyed in the Chicago fire.","7 clippings of Civil War engravings.","3 clippings of engravings of zoological topics.","2 clippings of engravings about the Crimea when occupied by Russian.","Supplement to Harper's Monthly.","Weekly cartoons appearing in Harper's Monthly.","14 pages from the April 1872 issue of Hearth and Home.","Clipping of Masthead of Harper's Monthly with an engraving of Clothes and Styles. November 29, 1872.","Cover page of the New York Fireside Companion. November 18, 1873.","Five sections of the November 1873 edition of Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly.","October 18, 1874 pamphlet \"Pastoral Letter\" written by T.D. Witherspoon.","Four clippings of engravings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Family Almanac.","Full June 16, 1877 issue of Illustrated Christian Weekly.","Scope and Contents 1883 Calendar sheet for Hiram Sibley \u0026amp; Co., Seedsman, in color.","Large foldout of the family tree of Queen Victoria from the Illustrated London News, \"Jubilee edition.\"","January 1896 price list for U.S. Stamps by N.E. Carter of Delavan, Wisconsin.","Three color illustrations with a poem.","\"The Golden Horseshoe\" pamphlet with illustrations.","Six book sale advertisements by different publishers.","A completed form for \"self-measurement\" for suits by the company, Noah Walker and Co.","Five advertising cards.","Five advertisements for carriages, ranges, safes, etc.","Five sheets of medical advertisements.","Instructions for playing the Monneuse Turkish Tubephone.","38 page notebook with pasted clippings of engravings of different subjects.","Typed transcriptions prepared by Yolande (Lonnie) Dobbs, of material pertaining to John Thompson Brown in boxes 7 to 19. She chose material to transcribe that would \"provide a fuller picture of Brown, his family and his political career at a time in American and Virginian history when a number of significant events were taking place. The issues of slavery, states rights, tariffs, elections of Senators, the Bank of the United States, presidential elections and the changing political parties were issues of vital importance to John Thompson Brown.\" Transcribed from 1998-2005. CD of transcriptions is available.","Introduction gives genealogical information of the Brown Family, beginning with Henry Brown who died in 1757 in New Jersey. Includes transcriptions of legal transactions, letters and other documents (not from this collection) which show the procession of the Brown Family from New Jersey to parts of Virginia.","Inventory of Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I. Typed and carbon transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Also, handwritten transcriptions that are not typed. Includes notes on possible subject arrangement of the transcriptions. The following folders may loosely follow this order. Includes processing notes, genealogical information and a partial inventory. The project appears to be incomplete. The author of these transcriptions may be Lonny Dobbs.","Two typed carbon inventories of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I, entitled \"...containing papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Harrison County and Petersburg.\"","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters from 1814 to 1822.","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters for 1831.","One typed transcript and one carbon transcript of letters from 1818 to 1824.  Noted as \"Letters of J.T. Brown.\"","One typed transcript, two carbon transcripts and the handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings from J.T. Brown's scrapbook. All from Box 14, Folder 30.","Handwritten transcripts of letters dated from 1831-1835. 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General Assembly. House of Delegates","Women--Virginia--Social life and customs","Correspondence","Diaries","Financial records","Receipts (financial records)","Transcripts","3433 items.","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into seven series:","Series 1 is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker Families;","Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of Capt. Henry Brown and his family;","Series 3 is Group C, containing the papers of John Thompson Brown;","Series 4 is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker Families;","Series 5 contains printed material received with the collection;","Series 6 contains transcriptions of Material Pertaining to John Thompson Brown (1802-1836): Boxes 7-19 by Lonny Dobbs;","Series 7 contains transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), possibly by Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough Barlowe and two copies of the inventory.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into various subseries by family names, personal names or subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the names of various other persons but the most prominent name is the one used to describe the subseries.","Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown 1(1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown 2(1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. 3(1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown 3(1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II 4(1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown 4(1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter 1(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter 2(1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter 2(1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Drewry in 1862 and Charlotte (Drewry) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker 1(1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker 2(1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker 3married Lucy (?). The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker 3married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker 3(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker 2(1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 2(1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People","William Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France.","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00051.frame","There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791-1920.941 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B855Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart","Mss. 65 B855 Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)","CDs from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.","Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates.","Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","This finding aid is also available in microfilm format in Swem Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge. Boxes 1-6.","The series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College.  221 items.","Note concerning the gift \"Received from Mrs. Fleming Saunders, of Evington, Virginia, in exchange for a scholarship grant to Miss Frances Bland Saunders,\" 3 March 1947.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin, as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3. Brown, as connected with Coalter and Tucker.","Chart of Coalter and Brown families compiled by Jennifer Boone for an honors thesis.","Sheets of sundry genealogical notes.","Notes concerning John Coalter (1769-1838).","Topical poems of this period written by John Coalter, Maria Rind, St. George Tucker, William Munford, and others.","Autobiographical sketch of John Coalter until his 18th birthday. Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge County; his responsibility for the farm while his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning 40£ per year as usher for John Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St. George Tucker to move because the plantation, Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no longer pay John Coalter 30£ per annum; offers to give legal training in exchange for tutoring services.","His father hopes that John Coalter will return home, to the higher country, for the \"sickly season.\"","Physical Location: See medium oversize file. Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at Dickinson College, and congratulates John Coalter on his chance to study law with St. George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr. Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for three and six years respectively, were freed by the army in Detroit.","James Rind, had been studying law with St. George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in the household of St. George Tucker, where she cared for the children.","Concerning his wedding trip.","Covers lacking. John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Scope and Contents Approval of the Constitution by South Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian War in Georgia. \"Brother Davidis over in Gloucester. If he has success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will be ready to sett (sic) out on our route to the South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I mean the loss of Health and a good complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the farm while he is getting started in his law practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without riches...however deserving of a better fate the poor always meet with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned at an early age and were helped by the Tuckers.)","Physical Location: For letters of 16 June 1790, 4 July 1790, and 7 Sept. 1790 see medium oversize file. 12 letters. His father does not have land to give him at that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has decided to move to Staunton, and continue his studies. In September he writes that he hopes to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great difficulty and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry, Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me faster in the world than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he, casts a light upon all around him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your gallantry but am affeared it has been attended with some accident which occasioned your move to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to establish himself and be in a position to support her as his wife.)","Physical Location: For letters of 6 April 1791 and 15 April 1791 see medium oversize file. 18 letters. After obtaining his license in Williamsburg, John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather have the approbation of that man than worlds for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to the torment by John Randolph; plans are made for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to remarry; she wishes to move up the date of their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by him...\"","Physical Location: For letter of 23 April 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 3 letters. \"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr. Wythe, I live in his house and board at his table...In this happy situation tomorrow I begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become Mrs. Tucker.\"","2 letters. Covers lacking. On the return of a wagon and horses; purchases of additional farm animals.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: For letter of 22 July 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 4 letters. Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown) was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","Scope and Contents This law practice is discouraging; entrusts Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across the Alps\"-- there are too many lawyers already.","Covers lacking. Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe. Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly, and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith. Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children she will be bringing to the marriage.","Scope and Contents Description of George Washington delivering an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter, addressed to \"Fan\", was written soon after Mrs. Coalter had gone to Staunton with her husband.","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\". On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Scope and Contents Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or 20£ per year as a clerk.","Scope and Contents The letter from Edinburgh contains an interesting description of life in the Scottish capital, the coldness of his fellow students until they are introduced, and his warm reception by a family to which he had a letter of introduction.","Scope and Contents Reports that there are about forty students at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W\u0026amp;M,\" and his mother proposes to send him to Harvard.","Enquires about Maria and their expected first child. (Both mother and child died.)","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina. The \"distressing news\" that his wife has died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his wife; reports the Independence Day orations at the College of William and Mary, and mentions the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed French immigrants at Norfolk.","The subseries covers the correspondence of John Coalter during his second marriage to Margaret Davenport, and in the early years of his third marriage, to Frances Bland Tucker. Correspondence from St. George Tucker, Mrs. Lelia Tucker, Mrs. Judith Randolph, and others is included. The material traces the legal career of John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk of the Court in Staunton, through the period of his second and third marriages to Margaret Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances Bland Tucker, 1802. Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker, her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and others. Correspondence with William Munford, in Williamsburg, is also included. 164 items.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","Scope and Contents William Munford has returned to the College of William and Mary, and is \"in constant attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs. Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to lose a newborn child.\"","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at her character\"; makes insulting statements regarding John Coalter's late wife. John Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny Stuart into court, after which she offers to return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships, including three men of war, five or six frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the presence of the French fleet and a British frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\"; for her, but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to her.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on the occasion of her marriage to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs. Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding divorce of F.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\"; and Indian victory are mentioned and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg, South Carolina and Louisville, Georgia. Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs. Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"; (the death of John Coalter's second wife in childbirth; the child also died.)","Scope and Contents Business letter concerning collections to be made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with the name of Tucker\"; and that she \"had better look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph, half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been linked with her sister in the famous scandal proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances Tucker.","Scope and Contents Fanny B. Tucker has just married John Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at the age of 18.","Scope and Contents Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters. Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the Warm Springs for her health in September.","Scope and Contents The letters are written from Richmond, Elm Grove, and Lexington. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to Williamsburg for the birth of her first child, Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of Lexington Academy.","The letters are written from Williamsburg, Haymarket, and Fredericksburg.","Scope and Contents John Coalter was on the court circuit.","Scope and Contents The letters are undated, but are replies to those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second wife of John Coalter, who continued to live with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St. George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Scope and Contents Death of her husband and her straitened circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure his deafness.","Scope and Contents In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker set out for Staunton in order to be there for the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents First mention of the second Coalter child, Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of his second daughter and the purchase of Elm Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her disappointment over his continued deafness Dr. Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over the servants. Illness of Polly the seamstress.","Scope and Contents Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","Scope and Contents John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","Scope and Contents The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary Coalter.","Scope and Contents Small pox.","Scope and Contents Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter).","Scope and Contents Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every summer at the medicinal springs for her health.","Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint George Tucker (June 14, 1809) upon the occasion of the birth of his first grandson, St. George Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the academies and colleges of that day. Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; the family then moved to Richmond. There are many letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs. Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and from other members of the family. There also are many letters to the daughters of John Coalter, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married Beverley Tucker and Polly Coalter and writes concerning her sons Saint George and Tudor.","Scope and Contents Letters written by John Coalter from Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanhawa Court House, and Richmond during spring and autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm Grove, and other matters.","Instructions for planting and penning up of a farm.","Scope and Contents One of the letters concerns the troubles with the English and the hope for a peaceful settlement.","Scope and Contents Three letters written from Richmond and Williamsburg. In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter) \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will never descend from the dignity of a private station.\" Concerning the education of his grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our youth, or the management of their tutor, shall undergo a most surprising and happy change in this Country, I had rather he should never hear of an Academy or a College, than enter the walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"She must come to us, as soon as she can leave Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas, that she may complete the clothing of the Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the district. About the war situation: \"We are more Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our wholetrade to aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we would only give the revenue arising from trade.\"","Scope and Contents Her parents were trying to buy a cook for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great success.","Scope and Contents These five letters although undated, are believed to have been written in 1810.","Scope and Contents Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently by the youth of the town.","Scope and Contents Eleven letters written from Richmond and Staunton. John Coalter attending the spring and autumn sittings of the Circuit Court, sends instructions for the management of the farm.","Scope and Contents Six letters discuss news of the farm, the slaves, and family. Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm and permission for him to visit his daughter in Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","David Coalter, Mary's father.","Scope and Contents Letters from William McPheeter, J. W. Allison, Joseph C. Cabell, Polly A. Steele, and William Kinney to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter (relatives of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) are placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents The four letters from M.S. Baldwin, M. Bush, Arch. Stuart, and \"M. T.,\" in Richmond and Petersburg, are undated but are presumed to date from 1811, and placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents Five letters written from Lewisburg and Kanahwa. In May, John Coalter writes of his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help me, I know not what to do. All have advised my acceptance.\" In October he writes of arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","Scope and Contents In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such long periods when John Coalter is absent on the court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\" their two year old son St. George Tucker Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest assured that no other Judge of the General Court will accept the office which is tendered you.\"","Scope and Contents John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs. Judith Randolph.","Scope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.","Scope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.","Scope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action \"is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an Event not far off.\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.","Scope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.","Scope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.","Scope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Scope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","The cover has the date and \"J. Randolph, Jr.\" endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\" his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th instant.\"","Scope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)","Scope and Contents She writes that \"the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months.\" Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.","Scope and Contents Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","Scope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.","Children of John Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter and St. George Tucker Coalter; their spouses; children and other extended family","Correspondence primarily of the two surviving children of John and Francis Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith H. Tomlin Coalter. Includes genealogical material on the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H. Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the collection from this time until her death in 1859. The last letters from their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special note is a letter of October 1831 in which St. George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and misunderstanding in the family, and appears to cast a slur on his step-father St. George Tucker. The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his wife and sister, especially those written from the springs which he visits each year, form the largest single group. In these letters an interesting picture of nineteenth century social life is to be found.","Typescript.","Scope and Contents School girl letters written by J. H. T. before her marriage.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit to America.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate Virgilia Savage in December on her marriage.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled, Generous Gentleman.\"","Scope and Contents Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents St. George Tucker complains about his sight and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in the first of these letters. The last is endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most dear Grandfather's illness and death are omitted and put to themselves.\"","Scope and Contents These two letters were written after the death of St. George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\" reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.","Scope and Contents The first letter is a printed invitation to a ball at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added; the second letter is a Temperance pledge signed by St. George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and three others.","Scope and Contents Evidently left in charge of his father's estate, Chatham, he writes concerning examinations at the College of William and Mary and of his experiences in vaccinating and performing minor operations on the slaves. (He was a 20 year old farmer with no medical training.)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave school to marry.","The letter is to Judith Tomlin Coalter after her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) made an attack on the Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter), finding no one else would rise to their defense, answered him...\"","Scope and Contents His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring sickness which was to bring on his early death in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter family home, for the birth of her first child, Walker Tomlin Coalter.","Scope and Contents In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he writes describing Randolph's estate and personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and entertains me highly with his conversation on all subjects...He is a man of the finest and nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning her husband's financial difficulties.","Scope and Contents Writes to his sister about crops, planting, and the like.","Scope and Contents The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter, are infants; this letter is written by St. George Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents In the January letter, he announces the birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes on July 27 that \"the shortness of breath and the hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Scope and Contents Her husband is at the Springs; she would like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says he never wished for money before, as the want of it keeps him from having company...\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Charlottesville, White Sulphur Springs, Warm Springs, Sweet Springs, and Salt Sulphur Springs. An interesting group of letters describing life at several of the medicinal springs which were so popular in the 19th century. He describes his daily regimen, the meals, the baths, other tourists, the costs, and the physical characteristics of the resorts.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband about family matters while he is at the springs for his health.","Scope and Contents A continuation of his previous letters, including a crude drawing of the buildings and grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","Scope and Contents In November she mentions that Beverley Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write, add their notes to the letter to their grandfather.","Scope and Contents Her husband is overworking, and she fears for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a position with a Richmond company.","Scope and Contents He writes about his poor health; mentions his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very much concerned with gold mine projects; he now orders St. George Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has decided that the family shall move closer to him. They are dependent on John Coalter financially.","Scope and Contents Life at the springs, his continuing illness and his poverty.","Scope and Contents His discouragement as he contemplates the move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven years we have to begin the world afresh and fix and build and lay out and all that -- oh thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent County, to St. George's Park, King William County, and the difficulty of the move.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very ill, and the new place is slow in getting established. Mention of the will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in which the good name of St. George Tucker is slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of St. George Tucker are also involved.","Scope and Contents Home has not been settled since leaving Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor, with a new house but a very indifferent one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home where his late father John Coalter forced him to move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never financially independent of his father). A doctor's prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal springs and regular exercise. Four months later St. George Tucker Coalter died. The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add to the correspondence as the years go on, for the families are very attached to one another and there is much visiting back and forth as well as letter writing. The letters of the cousins have been combined in this collection, so that an interesting picture is given of the life of this period; see a report of a traveling entertainer who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8 February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a Girl's school (2 February 1852). There is much discussion of diseases which were prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","Scope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.","Scope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning.\" (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.","Scope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down.\"","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me out.\"","Autographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, \"The last line I ever got from him.\"","(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.","Unsigned and undated.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.","Scope and Contents Of her poverty and of the need for means to educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Scope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.","Scope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)","Scope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him...\"","Scope and Contents He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the coldest and most melancholy place in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Hopes to get a place from the sale of the estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a long time not to have a house to call your own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so, perhaps, some money may have been received from the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take dancing lesson of 2 hours length every Saturday.\"","Scope and Contents Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Consumption and Cholera are discussed as well as the final division of the estate. Mrs. Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of her own. Sons John and Henry left in September for the University of Virginia where they room with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J. Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A dreadful affair has lately occurred at the University, one young man killed another, both intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as that is, it takes the cold blooded yankees to perpetrate the refinement of barbarism in stewing, and boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that he has had charge of the harvest at the farm because the overseer was sick. He has also advised the local doctors on Cholera cures: \"Mama received your letter by the last post and was much obliged to you for the copy you sent her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it reached here I have copied it twice for different doctors who seemed much pleased with the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the affectionate relationship between the two continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into Ellwood, the former summer home of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Letters written before and after a long visit. There were ties between the families despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter fears her youngest son, Saint George, has Typhoid fever.","Scope and Contents A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs. Washington.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking. About life in the great houses of Virginia, excursions on river boats, dances, and the like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a man from a woman. They go about in this costume for some time and have a dance...one gentleman went draped as a lady and no one found him out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his beads...\"","Scope and Contents \"When will your new house, or rather, new home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's mother has finally been able to buy a house, Stanley.)","The letter is addressed to \"My dear Cousin\".","Scope and Contents Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a lastingpeace and the welfare of my children preys very much on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s school have reached us from different quarters and report says Jinney and yourself acted a conspicuous part.\"","Scope and Contents A school friend writes of her textbooks: \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French Studies.\"","Scope and Contents Includes a most interesting account of trip by boat from Gloucester County, via Jamestown, to Richmond.","Scope and Contents The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's youngest child.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B. Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for license to practice law; reports on his brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school; her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families were brought together into one. The collection gives an interesting picture of the life and interests of a young lady of moderate circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr. Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with Fanny, although he was a married man with several children. The correspondence became more ardent in the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there. According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton, she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June 1856, and 19 March 1857. Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors, however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854, a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year later there are reports of her interest in the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg, both of whom were courting her. She finally settled on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage invitation are included in this box. Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II, brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.","Scope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude \"by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter, as subsequent correspondence show.)","Letter is addressed to \"My own dear Aunt\".","The letter is addressed to \"My dear sister\". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Scope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend.\"","Scope and Contents \"I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Covers lacking.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.","Scope and Contents To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\u0026amp;quot; and \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children; \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those \"distracting springs\u0026amp;quot; for invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Scope and Contents Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace Lacy.\"","Peronneau Brown and his brother, Thompson, are mentioned. (See letters of December 1855, Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has not changed.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden Sidney College.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he has visited the main cities of the south and attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess that I have been rather disappointed in the people that live in these rich lands--they are as rough as possible...live in log houses and on the very poorest fare.\"","Scope and Contents \"I suppose your wedding will be postponed unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P. Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I approve of your choice...\"","Scope and Contents \"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough affection for the old name to lay claim to it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","\"The King Wm. and Hanover Charaders. Positively their last appearance. At Stanley on Friday evening the 9th this brilliant Company....Ticket 1 ct., children and servants half price.\" A home performance by the Coalter and Bryan cousins. This item is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These covers are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr. Boxes 7 - 13.","Correspondence and business papers of Capt. Henry Brown, Revolutionary War veteran who opened a store in Bedford County, in 1793; Papers of Capt. Brown as Collector of Federal taxes on stills and real property. The Brown family papers begin with the letters and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), successful merchant of Bedford County and Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers are collected in the next section (Boxes 14-19). A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown, are included. The great bulk of the material, however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he opened a general store in Bedford soon after the conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the business, is preserved and the bulk of the material in this box pertains to the business of the store. A good picture of early merchandising is given by the accounts, letters relating to buying and selling trips, and the court actions taken to collect accounts. Beginning with folder 60, there are 39 items relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to 1803. 160 items.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and apprehend the worst from the dangers that encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping knife, tomahawk...return to us in all speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle, found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Note for ll.9.3£, witnessed by Jack Beverley. Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1 September, 1793.\"","Scope and Contents Includes letter from Israel Thompson regarding saddle goods in stock at the store.","Commission of Daniel Brown as Ensign in a Company of Light Infantry, signed by Samuel Coleman and James Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Receipts to Henry Brown for recording a deed.","Agreement to enter into a partnership.","Letters written from Richmond, Georgetown, and Baltimore.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia","Medicines received by Henry Brown from Howard Bennett.","14 pages. Unsigned.","Brrown's accounts as Tax Collector of the Bedford district.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt, purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had made you a Captain.\"","Recording a deed.","Bonds in hands of Jeremiah Jenkins for collection.","Includes a list of the new officers of the Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total value £815, between Leftwich and the Brown brothers.","Printed document signed.","Regarding loss of West India produce on which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear our loss will be considerable.\"","Returns from the Regimental hospital of the 35th U.S. Infantry. Sig. William W. Southall","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John Roberts on land that Captain Henry Brown sold to William Woodford.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20 and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want of prudence.\"","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Taxes collected by Robert Snoddy, in Bedford. 14 pages.","Includes printed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Abstract of duties collected from owners of stills and distilleries","Receipts for monies received by James.","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Directions for sending tax collections.","20 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","28 pages.","Letter includes a copy of Federal instructions to tax collectors. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Printed documents signed. Autographed draft.","Business records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.","Papers include accounts, letters, notes, vouchers, etc.","Accounts concerning the Hancock and Brown store, Lynchburg, Virginia.","Papers relating to the suit of Brown and Clayton vs. Pleasant Murphy, Bedford County, Virginia.","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his long life apart from the purely commercial activities upon which his considerable fortune was built. Included in this box are the papers relating to his other interests: Papers of Captain Henry Brown as Sheriff of Bedford County, Treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and of the New London Agricultural Society, and as executor of the estates of his brother, Daniel Brown, and father-in-law, John Thompson.","Accounts of subscriptions to the repair and improvement of New London Academy meeting house, Bedford County.","Records from Brown's service as Treasurer of the New London Agricultural Society, Bedford County.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of Daniel Brown.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of John Thompson.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly connected with any of his various business enterprises, but concerned principally with court suits involving debts to him. Included is an interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of trust of all his property to his creditors (11 April 1829 and 6 July 1833). Also includes papers concerned with the suit of Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840. Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning and releasing\" Leftwich.","Business papers of Henry Brown","Household, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.","Household, family and personal bills of Henry Brown","Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars in Florida, where he served after he was commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of \"bilious Cholic\" and his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20 per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes: \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio. \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)","Scope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.","Scope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.","Henry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Scope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)","William Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: \"The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel.\"","Scope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)","Henry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Scope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.","Scope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","Scope and Contents The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes about her marriage and the first meeting with her new relatives.","William Brown is the son of Samuel.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Mrs. Alexander (Lockie T. Brown) Irvine is her sister. Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to fresh paint in the boat.","Daniel Brown is the son of Samuel.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to the Presbyterian Church.","Henry Brown is her father.","Scope and Contents \"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and reach George Town. The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans the day before I left-he was not married but expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term marks.","Scope and Contents \"The first two years of our course are exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\" Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Oklawaka River and St. Augustine, Florida. \"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it, this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid description of St. Augustine.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Rose's Landing, Tennessee; Savannah, Georgia; and off Cape Hatteras. Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","8 letters. Total of 12 pages. Typescript.","Children of Captain Henry Brown: letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Captain Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and other members of the immediate family. Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his eyesight, went into the partnership of his father with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this part of the collection include a 44 page book of mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24 July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836). The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May 1836), are also included. The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the card which announced the opening of his law office in Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22 January 1842, mentions the business failures taking place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August of the same year comments on the national political situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\" 128 items.","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\" (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this time, though he continued to suffer from the ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39 years.)","A note for $1,000.00. At this time he was getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson Brown from the members of the House of Delegates.","Scope and Contents Concerning the business of Col. [Mark] Anthony, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears to be involved.","Includes autographed document signed.","44 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Mentions the marriage of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr., for use on his trip to England and the Continent in that year.","56 pages","Scope and Contents Letters written to her husband on his trip. \"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him home).","News from a letter she received from Henry Brown, Jr. in England.","Scope and Contents Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out of a slave.","\"It's really a sad case for me, to be sick from home and away from all that (are) Dear to me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown, Jr. was associated until he opened his own store in 1835. Includes autographed document.","Scope and Contents Brother-in-law, Jack Willcox; his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Includes autographed draft. Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from the time of one of the buying trips that Henry Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock and Brown, he opened his own store.","Scope and Contents Cover lost. Concerning the care for his horses, Young American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is away.","Scope and Contents Written while she and her husband were on a buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York, Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and died.","Unsigned. Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown during the final days in New York.","Scope and Contents An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and selling horses in order to settle the estate.","Profile by Professor William B. Rogers.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry Brown, Jr. estate.","Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown is his mother. Written from school, with endorsement by James Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","H. Guilford Brown is her son.","Charge slips for failing to attend army musters between 1829 and 1839, 1839. 10 items. Printed document signed.","Samuel T. Brown is his his brother-in-law. Letter congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Mrs. Alexander Irvine is her her sister-in-law. She writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her father, with whom she is living and for whom she is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful bride.\"","Draft of the statement concerning the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","His extended wedding trip; description of General Harrison's house.","Court cost voucher recording transfer of 400 acres from Henry Brown to Samuel T. Brown, with tax receipt. 2 items. Printed document signed.","Letter sent care of Judge Crawford at St. Stephens, Alabama. Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","A letter of consolation.","Scope and Contents On the death of W. W. Worthington, brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law, Samuel T. Brown.","Unsigned draft. Written to his overseer with whom he has quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","Agreement for the payment of a debt.","Drafts of a letter to Mark Andrews. 2 items. Concerning the cutting of trees on the property of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder 13:60.","Samuel T. Brown is her brother.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a bridge.","Receipt for postal expenses, April-June, 1849, signed H. Stevens.","Scope and Contents On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased by Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents The sale of a female slave \"with her Brood.\" Samuel T. Brown is Edward Robinson's brother-in-law.","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820; traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican (now Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief illness. The first two letters in Box 14 date from the period of his attendance at New London Academy; then follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination before the faculty, and received the highest mark given at the College, in each of the three years he spent at the College. His report sheets show the requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and contain a resolution passed by the trustees which condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in town. Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in this period is interesting for the comments it contains on the Missouri question and other matters then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his collegiate period may be compared with his statements on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of the House of Delegates. After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions. Upon his return he took up the study of law with Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\" \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the trip West which reveal his first impressions of the Clarksburg area. At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing some of his published writings, speeches, and newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary.\"","Scope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.","Scope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University.\"","Scope and Contents \"My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent...\" Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) \"If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class.\" (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.","Scope and Contents \"Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\" Concerning Lynchburg.","Scope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.","John Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Scope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.","John Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.","A Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","The content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.","\"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed: \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple of letters, continued July 8, 1831, Petersburg. The first section consists of musings and youthful recollections; the second is a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Letter from Alexander M. Jackson, at New London, to John Thompson Brown, regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Notes made at Judge Taylor's Law School.","License to practice law in the superior and inferior courts of this Commonwealth (Virginia).","Musings on friendship and the wise behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","44 pages. Musings written on a trip through Virginia: thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter were to be incorporated into an Independence Day address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Scope and Contents Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people have no money and are wretchedly poor and lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets are included in a bound scrap book, with endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of court, occurring in various parts of the Union, in which the punishment inflicted, has been made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","Report of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia","Speech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\" signed John Thompson Brown\".","\"The following copy of a Petition to the Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the request of a number of our Citizens.\"","32 pages. \"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of the Commonwealth, to the stock of the Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time. Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then submitted the following Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President). Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the following by way of substitute for the above...\"","Correspondence while Brown established himself in Clarksburg, and while representing Harrison County in the General Assembly. The material in this box covers the period 1825 to 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the Clarksburg Enquirer, contained in the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr. Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825). In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This box also contains various printed and manuscript material touching upon his career in the General Assembly. By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and planned to buy into a partnership in a store to advance his financial position. In a letter of March 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses success spoken of and the probability of Clay's being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs, which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation at the bar and a practice that supports me very decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\" over the signature Alexander. (See bound scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00 to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe, a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He reviews what he considers to be the most important problems of the day, and discusses (1) the invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the calling of a Constitutional Convention for the state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the uncontrolled banking system.","Scope and Contents His election to the General Assembly; hope of election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in the debates of the House and do not expect to do so...\"","The note is \"in regard to the question whether Clinton or Calhoun should run as Vice-President on the Jackson ticket\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other, more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of state.\"","Full title: \"Report of a Committee Appointed To Enquire Into The Nature And Extent Of The Evils Arising From The Present Unsettled State Of Land Titles On The Western Waters Of Virginia, And To Devise A Remedy Therefor, With Leave To Report A Bill Or Otherwise\" 6 pages. 2 copies.","3 copies.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Autographed document.","Autographed document.","\"Resolving that members of the House of Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the cause of this Society before the General Assembly of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered the most able one that had been delivered in the House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are pleased to express so deep an interest, is I believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a copy...\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Deptartment F 247 H3B73. The second copy is located in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, under the same call number as above. 17 pages. A report to his constituents on such matters as (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court, (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the committee on this subject, which he chaired, and the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court bills.","Scope and Contents \"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I could desire and shall support myself hereafter without any further drafts on your goodness...\"","Scope and Contents Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he discusses his prospects for Congress and of his plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Order appointing John Thompson Brown Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Virginia Militia.","5 items. Autographed document.","Notes are initialed \"J. T. B.'s\".","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal Springs, as contrasted with those of his constituency.","Scope and Contents In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's commission to his father. During the year he borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father has agreed to advance enough capital for him to become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the General Assembly, he writes that he will be a candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed last session authorizing the county court to levy a tax for repairing roads and bridges.\" On March 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he predicts that the basis of votes for whites will be surrendered in the formation of the new State constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall among the rest...\"","Correspondence from after his marriage to Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg (May 1830), and his move to that city, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1831. Also includes over one hundred toasts given at various occasions. The change which was to occur in the life and fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg circa December 1829, in which there is a discussion of \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (March 18, 1830) in a letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next letter in the collection (May 9, 1830), in draft, contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which was attended by no members of his immediate family. Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (July 22, 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the intention of resettling there and sending for his wife (May 2, 1831). During a four week visit to Harrison County, he finds his political position has declined (June 7, 1831), so he returns to Petersburg, and is invited to make the Independence Day address for the town (June 8, 1831). As a result of this address (and the good influence of his father-in-law) he is nominated to represent the town in the House of Delegates, and is elected without opposition (September 26, 1831). He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg Office of the Bank of Virginia (December 29, 1831), and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which is being established in Richmond (October 20, 1831). Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew outlining his philosophy of life and advising the young man on his future (October 3, 1831). A report of the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described in a letter of September 26, 1831. At the end of this box are collected more than a hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was cut down in the bud and You, my sweetest Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others believed I could certainly be elected to Congress next Spring...I wish to appear at P[etersburg]in a manner which would probably be expected and to avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution. Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if you can spare this additional sum you may hand it over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected and I cannot say that there was any other allay to my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my near relatives were present.\"","Scope and Contents On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr. Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going to N. York to the races. They came with us thus far...\" There is much discussion about where they will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week, were introduced to the President, etc., heard some interesting debates and saw all the great men of the nation...My situation is in all respects agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with much advice.","Scope and Contents After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I have nothing to add on the subject of my future arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you seemed to approve when we were together.\" He writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to them his town house \"furnished with servants\u0026amp;quot;; in another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500 and said that I should always have as much as I wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and account of his own situation.","Scope and Contents Letters from Harrison County report that \"the District needs me badly...but it is too late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined public life--for I would not believe you have abondoned it altogether.\"","Scope and Contents Autographed draft. Advice given to a young man summarizing John Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","Scope and Contents On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown, Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","Autographed drafts. The first important public speech of John Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears to have established his reputation, and which influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the wisdom of his brother's decision to visit England.","Physical Location: See 25 April 1822, Box-folder 14:21, These are the continuous drafts of multiple letters. This draft concerns the second part which contains a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Scope and Contents On July 25, he states that his brother has left on the packet for Baltimore on the way to Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On September 14 he writes that his wife has given birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau, \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Scope and Contents A letter from Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown to John Thompson Brown encloses the letter from Henry Brown Jr. Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a result of which \"I become more and more an American in feeling and principle...\"","Scope and Contents \"I was elected without opposition after announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton (Nat Turner), \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in some measure of the prejudice against them--but think nevertheless that...southern firewould be none the worse for being somewhat cooled by the northern frost.\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to \"sharpers.\" Endorsed by Windham Robertson.","Scope and Contents Describes the quarters he has for his wife and son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I think no measure can or ought to be taken now for the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia in Petersburg.","Two speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of John Thompson Brown in the items included in this box. A member from Petersburg in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson Brown was placed in a position of leadership and strongly influenced the decisions taken in those critical years. His speech on the abolition of slavery was considered so important that Judge Henry St. George Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia delegation to the national convention of the Republican Party; his resolution of the Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the question of President Jackson's moves against the United States Bank was of particular concern to him (9 April 1833). Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his substitute motion on the question is included in this box, as well as his speech on The State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina, delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet form. John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S. Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified by years or experience (December 1832). An interesting report of his meeting with President Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson Brown to his wife (23 May 1832). Also included in this box are letters from John Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer (7 February, 3 March 1833). Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are included at the end of this box. 81 items.","Scope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.","Scope and Contents \"My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.","James Murray Mason (1798-1871).","Scope and Contents \"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","Scope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.","Scope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of engrossing interest...South Carolina is unquestionably wrong and as long as she remains in the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.","2 items. Autographed draft.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.","Scope and Contents \"I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech...\"","4 pages. Doc. No. 14. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. Mr. Marshall's Substitute to the Report... Doc. No. 16. Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina, the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the communication of the governor of this Commonwealth on the same subject.\"","Delivered January 5, 1833. Richmond: Thomas W. White, printer. 1833. 42 pages. 3 copies. After stating his opposition to protective tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent of the Constitution, rather than a violation of its literal principles.\" He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the United States on his general policy but disputes the Proclamation of the President on other grounds, basing his argument on The Law of Nationsby E. de Vattel. As to the action of South Carolina, he contends that there is no possibility of nullification under the Constitution, but that the redress of the wrong done in the tariff act must come by recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\" acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an amendment to the Constitution.","\"Substitute Submitted By Mr. Brown, Petersburg, For the Amended Report of the Committee on Federal Relations\"","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his resolutions.","Scope and Contents \"I was anxious myself that Virginia should maintain an impartial and just attitude toward both S. Carolina and the President, but far the greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I thought there was error on both sides...\" He remarks that Edward [Steptoe]has been successful in getting his appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr. Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\u0026amp;quot; but \"without...your letter...the application could scarcely have been successful.\"","2 copies. Printed manuscript.","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point; report of the enforcing bill in the President's proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","Scope and Contents In July he announces the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","The two items are signed Julian. \"On seeing Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by John Thompson Brown about this period.","Written by John Thompson Brown, Petersburg.","Letters written by John Thompson Brown during portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions of the General Assembly. The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the legislative battle fought and lost against the Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown believed would have disastrous effects on the future of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy the rough and tumble of party politics then developing. Also of interest are the draft of a speech delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates (January 1835). 44 items.","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","Scope and Contents His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in the Assembly; family news.","Scope and Contents \"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end of February and beginning of March he is kept in bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation, mentioning the message President Jackson sent to Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which he will bring with him.\"","Scope and Contents Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's brother, to start his study of law with him.","John J. Allen (1797-1871)","Scope and Contents Sold bank shares to help his brother go into business for himself; gives advice on racing horses.","Draft of a speech delivered in Petersburg on the occasion of the death of Lafayette. 43 pages. Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military Academy. John Thompson Brown is the uncle of Edward J. Steptoe.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the death of a sister and congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","Scope and Contents \"No subject arouses anybody except the senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources at the service of his brother in his new business venture.","3 letters, 1 draft. On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter, which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a fight in the halls of the General Assembly between himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better received than anything I have ever made.\"","A speech \"...upon the Election of a Senator in Congress: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia\". 28 pages. Printed book. Points out the importance of this election for \"future political events and party combinations in the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr. Leigh.","Written by John Thompson Brown. 70 pages. Autographed Manuscript. Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like, prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates. 116 pages.","Letters from February 1835, until his death in November 1836; manuscripts of four articles written to oppose the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President. The closing sessions of the State Legislature of 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a street fight with an opponent in which he receives a black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins the election (April 1835). Before the next session of the legislature, John Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more material on the question of slavery (August 1835), and prepared three long drafts written in opposition to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are included at the end of the 1835 section. Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store. The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of his brother, and his activity in settling his brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the letters included in this box. At the end of July he takes his family to his father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which keeps him there until his death on 26 November 1836. 104 items.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson Brown II, and tells his brother that he had ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the store that he had opened.","Scope and Contents Political activity in Petersburg.","Scope and Contents \"The Jackson party has brought out the most popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite likely he will beat me.\"","Scope and Contents On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\" There is also a report of a street fight between John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his law studies, and describes a visit by his old friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit him.","Scope and Contents Drafts on the subject of the northern resolutions on slavery, particularly those recently passed in Portland and Boston. 3 items.","4 items. Autographed draft.","Scope and Contents Family discussion, especially concerned with the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown as an honorary member of the Jefferson Society.","The content is on the stand of Mr. Van Buren on emancipation. 28 numbered columns. Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","Notes on this topic.","Notes on this topic. Also includes an additional 2 page insertion.","Notes on this topic. The series of drafts is in opposition to Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President of the United States. 48 pages.","Good reports of the new business venture of his brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York; political prospects now look bright, but \"the state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Commission as Captain in the Cavalry of the Virginia Militia. Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","Signed Captain John Thompson Brown.","Scope and Contents John Thompson Brown writes five letters from Hobson's Inn, Homes, Otter Hills, and Lynchburg. On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown, Jr.","Scope and Contents Taking inventory at the store of his late brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Scope and Contents Reports on the stocktaking in the store of Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the last letter from John Thompson Brown to his father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes arrangements for his own family to join him. (This is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her uncle regarding the recent death of her father, Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John Thompson Brown, 29 years\" envelope marked, \"For sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave, Nov. 13th, 1845, Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington,\" with clover leaves inside.","Signed Robert B. Bolling, Chairman. A resolution in memory of John Thompson Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John Thompson Brown, by William A. Dod.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her father-in-law. Mrs. Mary E. Brown is the widow of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of consolation.","In service as Executors of John Thompson Brown.","Drafts.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the region around Bedford, Virginia. 40 pages.","16 pages. Draft.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Incomplete.","The bounties offered for Indian scalps in Bedford between 1755 and 1758.","11 items. Autographed document.","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction details.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman. There are also nineteenth century engravings. Boxes 20 - 24.","Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4, 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to submit. John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by the members of his company (December 1, 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and belt (April 23, 1861) mark the beginning of action, and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a transfer to a more active field of war and an extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The box concludes with items which appear to have been on the person of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, when he was killed in action on 6 May 1864. 83 items.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.","58 pages. Draft.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball...\"","2 copies.","3 items.","Report on ammunition on hand.","3 items.","2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.","4 items.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.","3 items.","Draft of a suggestion for winter furloughs in order to extend the length of service in the fighting season.","Published by West and Johnson, Richmond.","4 items.","13 items.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two over John Thompson Brown's command.","Signed by W. H. Taylor and Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton. 4 items.","Scope and Contents 4 items.","4 items. Autographed document signed.","Receipt for whitewashing two rooms.","Request the return of his report on the battle of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to General Stuart.","4 items.","Papers which appear to have been on John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Gift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County","Book containing several commissions, leather bound.","2 copies. Printed material.","5 items. Newspaper clipping.","Autograph poem and newspaper text; \"Lines written on seeing 'Rifle' the war-horse of Col. J. T. B....\" from the Richmond Dispatch.","The marker titled \"Thompson Brown\" has blue ribbons attached.","The papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She expresses concern that her son is more interested in affairs other than his studies (March 1, 1849). His school career is traced briefly through his years at the University of Virginia (June 28, 1851). The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau Brown and his fiancee, Frances Bland Coalter, 1858, lead into the family correspondence which completes this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker Papers.) From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern farmer to re-establish himself after the war. 108 items.","Scope and Contents Letters written to Samuel T. Brown while he was in Charleston, South Carolina and New London, Virginia. The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is attending school in South Carolina. He was devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of college life and not enough to his studies.","Scope and Contents Congratulating him on his success at Charleston College; a proposed biography of John Thompson Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the University of Virginia.","Receipt for 65 pounds of ice to Henry Peronneau Brown from Long and Stevens, Petersburg.","Scope and Contents 5 letters. Affectionate letters to her fiance.","Scope and Contents In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents \"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home is so lovely and you are so happy...for its mountain scenery.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning the failing health of their mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","Letter to his sister, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents Eight calling cards in a cover addressed to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is heading him to the madhouse.","Scope and Contents She writes of the ladies making vests and shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees have landed at Hampton; the first of the war casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have just been received which we are to turn our attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing all about. Comments on \"the tennessee company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","Scope and Contents The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this antiquated spot\u0026amp;quot; because her husband was drilling some new troops and sent for her to join him.","From Stanley, the family home, to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in Richmond.","\"...adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of exchanged prisoners...\"","Scope and Contents Written while Henry was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to his sister.","Receipt for wheat delivered. Signed A. Wynne and L. Hatchet.","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian Church at Tappahannock.","A bill brought in Chancery Court by John R. Bryan against H. B. Tomlin, executor of St. George Tucker Coalter. The settlement of the John Randolph estate which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew; recommends that he stop drinking.","Receipt for wages.","2 items. Printed document signed.","Accounts with stores. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written to his sister as he made a start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before as I am now...I have not spent during the whole year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home Remedies.\"","2 items.","4 items. Printed document signed.","Writes of Cassie Tucker, wife of John Thompson Brown III. \"You have introduced into your home a very sunbeam.\"","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\", his sister-in-law, and concerns the death of John Coalter II.","Statement concerning the trust for Mrs. Fanny B. Brown (Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown).","2 items. Autographed document.","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter. There are 6 report cards from The University School, Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a pamphlet of Resolutions Passed in 1894, 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School Act. Many of the letters in the collection are from Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as photographs of some members of the family and pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Captain Henry Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown III. At the end of the box is a notebook containing sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for her son John Thompson Brown III. 80 items. (John Thompson Brown III, son of Henry Peronneau Brown, who married Cassie Tucker, thus reuniting the family with the Tucker line.)","To her son (John Thompson Brown III) urging him to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Report cards from University School, some countersigned by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown. 6 items. Printed document signed. Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown III, when the reports were sent home.","Paper written on Martin Luther.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered through the classical writers.\"","Scope and Contents The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman; the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely restored.\" Beverly Tucker and Braxton Bryan are mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy at Jamestown.","The letters are addressed to \"Thompson\".","Two photographs, one of John Thompson Brown IV and his sister, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, with a servant, Aunt Jane; the other of the house, Ivy Cliff, originally called Otter Hill. Photostat.","Scope and Contents \"...make haste and get well enough to come home where you are much missed.\"","45 items. Printed document signed.","Includes a separate sermon. Autographed draft signed. \"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it carefully and may God have mercy on his soul. Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September 1894.)","Material related to the Brown and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A. Adams are placed at the beginning of the box. Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska, relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member of the family, Captain David Tucker Brown, is represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from France when he was serving as a member of the American Commission to negotiate peace. Seventeen undated items concerning unidentified persons are grouped at the end of the box. 85 items.","15 items.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention, 1901-2.\"","Editorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.","Candidacy for the position of Lieutenant Governor.","Periodical. Pages 125-139. Printed manuscript.","5 items. Newsclippings regarding William B. Allison, Theodore Roosevelt, and \"The Political Situation, 1876-1908\".","Newsclippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker taken from the Nome Daily Nugget, Nome Democrat and Nome Industrial Worker.","Concerning the Farmer's Winter Institute in Agriculture, 1913-1914, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From \"The World\", New York.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. With the \"American Commission to Negotiate Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson Brown IV, of Wilmington.","A proclamation by Westmoreland Davis, Governor. Also Includes a song sheet of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. 2 items.","27 items.","Date unknown.","Revolutionary War service claim, draft on the Bank of Virginia, and article surviving soldier's payments. 3 items. Printed document signed.","\"From private who served you on the memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\"","2 items. Printed document signed.","Invitation from the Royal Geographical Society.","2 items. Autographed draft.","An alphabetical list of flowers with the characteristics of each expressed symbolically.","Newspaper clippings of pictures from engravings, plus some advertisements and copies of publications. Circa 400 items.","20 columns of news clippings from \"Central Presbyterian.\"","3 poems, news clippings and a clipping with sheet music.","Illustrated London News, December 18, 1866.","Christmas supplement from the Illustrated London News, December 18, 1869.","6 clippings of engravings about archaeology.","22 clippings of engravings about farming and husbandry.","8 clippings of engravings of churches destroyed in the Chicago fire.","7 clippings of Civil War engravings.","3 clippings of engravings of zoological topics.","2 clippings of engravings about the Crimea when occupied by Russian.","Supplement to Harper's Monthly.","Weekly cartoons appearing in Harper's Monthly.","14 pages from the April 1872 issue of Hearth and Home.","Clipping of Masthead of Harper's Monthly with an engraving of Clothes and Styles. November 29, 1872.","Cover page of the New York Fireside Companion. November 18, 1873.","Five sections of the November 1873 edition of Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly.","October 18, 1874 pamphlet \"Pastoral Letter\" written by T.D. Witherspoon.","Four clippings of engravings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Family Almanac.","Full June 16, 1877 issue of Illustrated Christian Weekly.","Scope and Contents 1883 Calendar sheet for Hiram Sibley \u0026amp; Co., Seedsman, in color.","Large foldout of the family tree of Queen Victoria from the Illustrated London News, \"Jubilee edition.\"","January 1896 price list for U.S. Stamps by N.E. Carter of Delavan, Wisconsin.","Three color illustrations with a poem.","\"The Golden Horseshoe\" pamphlet with illustrations.","Six book sale advertisements by different publishers.","A completed form for \"self-measurement\" for suits by the company, Noah Walker and Co.","Five advertising cards.","Five advertisements for carriages, ranges, safes, etc.","Five sheets of medical advertisements.","Instructions for playing the Monneuse Turkish Tubephone.","38 page notebook with pasted clippings of engravings of different subjects.","Typed transcriptions prepared by Yolande (Lonnie) Dobbs, of material pertaining to John Thompson Brown in boxes 7 to 19. She chose material to transcribe that would \"provide a fuller picture of Brown, his family and his political career at a time in American and Virginian history when a number of significant events were taking place. The issues of slavery, states rights, tariffs, elections of Senators, the Bank of the United States, presidential elections and the changing political parties were issues of vital importance to John Thompson Brown.\" Transcribed from 1998-2005. CD of transcriptions is available.","Introduction gives genealogical information of the Brown Family, beginning with Henry Brown who died in 1757 in New Jersey. Includes transcriptions of legal transactions, letters and other documents (not from this collection) which show the procession of the Brown Family from New Jersey to parts of Virginia.","Inventory of Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I. Typed and carbon transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Also, handwritten transcriptions that are not typed. Includes notes on possible subject arrangement of the transcriptions. The following folders may loosely follow this order. Includes processing notes, genealogical information and a partial inventory. The project appears to be incomplete. The author of these transcriptions may be Lonny Dobbs.","Two typed carbon inventories of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I, entitled \"...containing papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Harrison County and Petersburg.\"","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters from 1814 to 1822.","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters for 1831.","One typed transcript and one carbon transcript of letters from 1818 to 1824.  Noted as \"Letters of J.T. Brown.\"","One typed transcript, two carbon transcripts and the handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings from J.T. Brown's scrapbook. All from Box 14, Folder 30.","Handwritten transcripts of letters dated from 1831-1835. 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He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany papers of Henry Brown, Jr. 3(1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown 3(1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. John Thompson Brown II 4(1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Henry Peronneau Brown 4(1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCoalter Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter 1(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker Coalter 2(1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter 2(1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Drewry in 1862 and Charlotte (Drewry) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker 1(1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry St. George Tucker 2(1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tucker 3married Lucy (?). The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. David Hunter Tucker 3married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker 3(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnn Frances Bland Tucker 2(1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Beverley Tucker 2(1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther People\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown 1(1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown 2(1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. 3(1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown 3(1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II 4(1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown 4(1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter 1(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter 2(1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter 2(1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Drewry in 1862 and Charlotte (Drewry) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker 1(1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker 2(1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker 3married Lucy (?). The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker 3married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker 3(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker 2(1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 2(1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People","William Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00051.frame\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00051.frame"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791-1920.941 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B855Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Mss. 65 B855 Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e CDs from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791-1920.941 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B855Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart","Mss. 65 B855 Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)","CDs from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis finding aid is also available in microfilm format in Swem Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003ePapers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge. Boxes 1-6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College.  221 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote concerning the gift \"Received from Mrs. Fleming Saunders, of Evington, Virginia, in exchange for a scholarship grant to Miss Frances Bland Saunders,\" 3 March 1947.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin, as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3. Brown, as connected with Coalter and Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChart of Coalter and Brown families compiled by Jennifer Boone for an honors thesis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSheets of sundry genealogical notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes concerning John Coalter (1769-1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopical poems of this period written by John Coalter, Maria Rind, St. George Tucker, William Munford, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutobiographical sketch of John Coalter until his 18th birthday. Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge County; his responsibility for the farm while his father is away at war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning 40£ per year as usher for John Holt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his new position as tutor to the children of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St. George Tucker to move because the plantation, Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no longer pay John Coalter 30£ per annum; offers to give legal training in exchange for tutoring services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis father hopes that John Coalter will return home, to the higher country, for the \"sickly season.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: See medium oversize file. Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at Dickinson College, and congratulates John Coalter on his chance to study law with St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttending lectures of the Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr. Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want of money to buy another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo young cousins, in custody of Indians for three and six years respectively, were freed by the army in Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Rind, had been studying law with St. George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in the household of St. George Tucker, where she cared for the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning his wedding trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers lacking. John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for a coat and a pair of spectacles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Approval of the Constitution by South Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian War in Georgia. \"Brother Davidis over in Gloucester. If he has success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will be ready to sett (sic) out on our route to the South.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst letter of young Micajah Coalter, who is learning to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Have you been exempted from paying the oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I mean the loss of Health and a good complexion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions John Coalter's desire to return home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses desire to marry and to live on the farm while he is getting started in his law practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...nothing can be expected without riches...however deserving of a better fate the poor always meet with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned at an early age and were helped by the Tuckers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: For letters of 16 June 1790, 4 July 1790, and 7 Sept. 1790 see medium oversize file. 12 letters. His father does not have land to give him at that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has decided to move to Staunton, and continue his studies. In September he writes that he hopes to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and apply for admission to the bar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are written with great difficulty and show a lack of schooling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions \"your quondam charges, Henry, Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me faster in the world than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he, casts a light upon all around him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter has borrowed a horse from him for the trip to Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I...was much pleased to hear of your gallantry but am affeared it has been attended with some accident which occasioned your move to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to establish himself and be in a position to support her as his wife.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: For letters of 6 April 1791 and 15 April 1791 see medium oversize file. 18 letters. After obtaining his license in Williamsburg, John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather have the approbation of that man than worlds for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to the torment by John Randolph; plans are made for their marriage in autumn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to remarry; she wishes to move up the date of their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: For letter of 23 April 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 3 letters. \"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr. Wythe, I live in his house and board at his table...In this happy situation tomorrow I begin the Study of Law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates James Rind on receiving his license to practice law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We visit very often at the different houses in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become Mrs. Tucker.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters. Covers lacking. On the return of a wagon and horses; purchases of additional farm animals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Physical Location: For letter of 22 July 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 4 letters. Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown) was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George Wythe is teaching his servant to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents This law practice is discouraging; entrusts Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscourages John Coalter from coming \"across the Alps\"-- there are too many lawyers already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers lacking. Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe. Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter on his marriage to Maria Rind.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly, and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith. Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children she will be bringing to the marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Description of George Washington delivering an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the uncle of John Thompson Brown.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter, addressed to \"Fan\", was written soon after Mrs. Coalter had gone to Staunton with her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"Fanny\". On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wages are to be 15£ or 20£ per year as a clerk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The letter from Edinburgh contains an interesting description of life in the Scottish capital, the coldness of his fellow students until they are introduced, and his warm reception by a family to which he had a letter of introduction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports that there are about forty students at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W\u0026amp;amp;M,\" and his mother proposes to send him to Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires about Maria and their expected first child. (Both mother and child died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina. The \"distressing news\" that his wife has died in childbirth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar reports; the parade of the Richmond Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsoles John Coalter on the loss of his wife; reports the Independence Day orations at the College of William and Mary, and mentions the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed French immigrants at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe subseries covers the correspondence of John Coalter during his second marriage to Margaret Davenport, and in the early years of his third marriage, to Frances Bland Tucker. Correspondence from St. George Tucker, Mrs. Lelia Tucker, Mrs. Judith Randolph, and others is included. The material traces the legal career of John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk of the Court in Staunton, through the period of his second and third marriages to Margaret Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances Bland Tucker, 1802. Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker, her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and others. Correspondence with William Munford, in Williamsburg, is also included. 164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends John Coalter as Clerk of the Staunton Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of evils has befallen your friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests payment of a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents William Munford has returned to the College of William and Mary, and is \"in constant attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs. Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to lose a newborn child.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking. Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at her character\"; makes insulting statements regarding John Coalter's late wife. John Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny Stuart into court, after which she offers to return John Coalter's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely in indigo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships, including three men of war, five or six frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the presence of the French fleet and a British frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for his law license.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There can be but one in the world\"; for her, but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulations on the occasion of her marriage to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs. Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding divorce of F.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a mare to be serviced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"war\"; and Indian victory are mentioned and a bloody spring season is predicted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg, South Carolina and Louisville, Georgia. Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews before the Georgia Legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention is made of a child expected by Mrs. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences \"on this distressing occasion\"; (the death of John Coalter's second wife in childbirth; the child also died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business letter concerning collections to be made in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe should \"by this time be fatigued with the name of Tucker\"; and that she \"had better look about\" (for a husband).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is from the papers of John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph, half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains that she is \"surrounded by the real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been linked with her sister in the famous scandal proceedings.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a horse in which he is interested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHint of a June wedding for Frances Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fanny B. Tucker has just married John Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at the age of 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters. Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the Warm Springs for her health in September.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The letters are written from Richmond, Elm Grove, and Lexington. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to Williamsburg for the birth of her first child, Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of Lexington Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are written from Williamsburg, Haymarket, and Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Coalter was on the court circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The letters are undated, but are replies to those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eF. Davenport was the mother of the second wife of John Coalter, who continued to live with the Coalters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning deed to property, probably Elm Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaria Carter was a step-daughter of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of obtaining a clerk's position with the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Death of her husband and her straitened circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure his deafness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker set out for Staunton in order to be there for the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents First mention of the second Coalter child, Elizabeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illness of Tudor Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates John Coalter on the birth of his second daughter and the purchase of Elm Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty in buying good house servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial matters, mainly about bank shares and dividends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Randolph's visit to England; her disappointment over his continued deafness Dr. Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over the servants. Illness of Polly the seamstress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $1,230 on bank shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Small pox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the embargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife Evelina has given birth to a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Catherine Coalter was visiting the Coalters at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of her young daughters, Fancilea (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every summer at the medicinal springs for her health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint George Tucker (June 14, 1809) upon the occasion of the birth of his first grandson, St. George Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the academies and colleges of that day. Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; the family then moved to Richmond. There are many letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs. Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and from other members of the family. There also are many letters to the daughters of John Coalter, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances Lelia Coalter in 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the appointment of John Coalter to his position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February 7, 1807).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a visit from the newly married Beverley Tucker and Polly Coalter and writes concerning her sons Saint George and Tudor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written by John Coalter from Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanhawa Court House, and Richmond during spring and autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm Grove, and other matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for planting and penning up of a farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents One of the letters concerns the troubles with the English and the hope for a peaceful settlement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Three letters written from Richmond and Williamsburg. In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter) \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will never descend from the dignity of a private station.\" Concerning the education of his grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our youth, or the management of their tutor, shall undergo a most surprising and happy change in this Country, I had rather he should never hear of an Academy or a College, than enter the walls of one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"She must come to us, as soon as she can leave Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas, that she may complete the clothing of the Negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppeals to James All to represent the district. About the war situation: \"We are more Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our wholetrade to aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we would only give the revenue arising from trade.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Her parents were trying to buy a cook for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These five letters although undated, are believed to have been written in 1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently by the youth of the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Eleven letters written from Richmond and Staunton. John Coalter attending the spring and autumn sittings of the Circuit Court, sends instructions for the management of the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Six letters discuss news of the farm, the slaves, and family. Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm and permission for him to visit his daughter in Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a cook for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavid Coalter, Mary's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters from William McPheeter, J. W. Allison, Joseph C. Cabell, Polly A. Steele, and William Kinney to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter (relatives of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) are placed in one folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The four letters from M.S. Baldwin, M. Bush, Arch. Stuart, and \"M. T.,\" in Richmond and Petersburg, are undated but are presumed to date from 1811, and placed in one folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Five letters written from Lewisburg and Kanahwa. In May, John Coalter writes of his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help me, I know not what to do. All have advised my acceptance.\" In October he writes of arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such long periods when John Coalter is absent on the court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\" their two year old son St. George Tucker Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker strongly advises his brother-in-law against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest assured that no other Judge of the General Court will accept the office which is tendered you.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs. Judith Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action \"is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an Event not far off.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe cover has the date and \"J. Randolph, Jr.\" endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of his \"great and irretrievable loss\" his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th instant.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents She writes that \"the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months.\" Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren of John Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter and St. George Tucker Coalter; their spouses; children and other extended family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence primarily of the two surviving children of John and Francis Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith H. Tomlin Coalter. Includes genealogical material on the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H. Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the collection from this time until her death in 1859. The last letters from their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special note is a letter of October 1831 in which St. George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and misunderstanding in the family, and appears to cast a slur on his step-father St. George Tucker. The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his wife and sister, especially those written from the springs which he visits each year, form the largest single group. In these letters an interesting picture of nineteenth century social life is to be found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents School girl letters written by J. H. T. before her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit to America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate Virgilia Savage in December on her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled, Generous Gentleman.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents St. George Tucker complains about his sight and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in the first of these letters. The last is endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most dear Grandfather's illness and death are omitted and put to themselves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These two letters were written after the death of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\" reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letter is a printed invitation to a ball at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added; the second letter is a Temperance pledge signed by St. George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and three others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Evidently left in charge of his father's estate, Chatham, he writes concerning examinations at the College of William and Mary and of his experiences in vaccinating and performing minor operations on the slaves. (He was a 20 year old farmer with no medical training.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave school to marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is to Judith Tomlin Coalter after her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) made an attack on the Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter), finding no one else would rise to their defense, answered him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring sickness which was to bring on his early death in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter family home, for the birth of her first child, Walker Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he writes describing Randolph's estate and personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and entertains me highly with his conversation on all subjects...He is a man of the finest and nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two letters concerning her husband's financial difficulties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes to his sister about crops, planting, and the like.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter, are infants; this letter is written by St. George Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In the January letter, he announces the birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes on July 27 that \"the shortness of breath and the hacking cough have left me entirely.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Her husband is at the Springs; she would like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says he never wished for money before, as the want of it keeps him from having company...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Charlottesville, White Sulphur Springs, Warm Springs, Sweet Springs, and Salt Sulphur Springs. An interesting group of letters describing life at several of the medicinal springs which were so popular in the 19th century. He describes his daily regimen, the meals, the baths, other tourists, the costs, and the physical characteristics of the resorts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband about family matters while he is at the springs for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A continuation of his previous letters, including a crude drawing of the buildings and grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In November she mentions that Beverley Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe boys, who are just learning to write, add their notes to the letter to their grandfather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Her husband is overworking, and she fears for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a position with a Richmond company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents He writes about his poor health; mentions his uncle, Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Coalter is very much concerned with gold mine projects; he now orders St. George Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has decided that the family shall move closer to him. They are dependent on John Coalter financially.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Life at the springs, his continuing illness and his poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His discouragement as he contemplates the move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven years we have to begin the world afresh and fix and build and lay out and all that -- oh thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent County, to St. George's Park, King William County, and the difficulty of the move.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Coalter is very ill, and the new place is slow in getting established. Mention of the will of John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in which the good name of St. George Tucker is slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of St. George Tucker are also involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Home has not been settled since leaving Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor, with a new house but a very indifferent one.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter was written.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home where his late father John Coalter forced him to move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never financially independent of his father). A doctor's prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal springs and regular exercise. Four months later St. George Tucker Coalter died. The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add to the correspondence as the years go on, for the families are very attached to one another and there is much visiting back and forth as well as letter writing. The letters of the cousins have been combined in this collection, so that an interesting picture is given of the life of this period; see a report of a traveling entertainer who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8 February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a Girl's school (2 February 1852). There is much discussion of diseases which were prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning.\" (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, \"The last line I ever got from him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Of her poverty and of the need for means to educate her children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing the birth of a child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the coldest and most melancholy place in the world.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes to get a place from the sale of the estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a long time not to have a house to call your own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the Randolph estate are not fulfilled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so, perhaps, some money may have been received from the Randolph estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 9-year old writes of attending a dance at Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take dancing lesson of 2 hours length every Saturday.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Consumption and Cholera are discussed as well as the final division of the estate. Mrs. Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of her own. Sons John and Henry left in September for the University of Virginia where they room with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J. Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A dreadful affair has lately occurred at the University, one young man killed another, both intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as that is, it takes the cold blooded yankees to perpetrate the refinement of barbarism in stewing, and boiling...living people...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that he has had charge of the harvest at the farm because the overseer was sick. He has also advised the local doctors on Cholera cures: \"Mama received your letter by the last post and was much obliged to you for the copy you sent her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it reached here I have copied it twice for different doctors who seemed much pleased with the proscription (sic).\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA beautiful description of the Cove and the island as seen from the Eagle Point house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the affectionate relationship between the two continued for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Lacy's are preparing to move into Ellwood, the former summer home of John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written before and after a long visit. There were ties between the families despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter fears her youngest son, Saint George, has Typhoid fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs. Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Cover lacking. About life in the great houses of Virginia, excursions on river boats, dances, and the like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a man from a woman. They go about in this costume for some time and have a dance...one gentleman went draped as a lady and no one found him out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his beads...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"When will your new house, or rather, new home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's mother has finally been able to buy a house, Stanley.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"My dear Cousin\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a lastingpeace and the welfare of my children preys very much on my spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Coalter is attending a school conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorses note from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress on the improvements at Ellwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s school have reached us from different quarters and report says Jinney and yourself acted a conspicuous part.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A school friend writes of her textbooks: \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French Studies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes a most interesting account of trip by boat from Gloucester County, via Jamestown, to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's youngest child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's school writes back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn offer to abate charges so that Fanny B. Coalter could remain in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites that he has stood his examination for license to practice law; reports on his brothers and sisters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school; her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families were brought together into one. The collection gives an interesting picture of the life and interests of a young lady of moderate circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr. Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with Fanny, although he was a married man with several children. The correspondence became more ardent in the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there. According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton, she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June 1856, and 19 March 1857. Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors, however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854, a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year later there are reports of her interest in the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg, both of whom were courting her. She finally settled on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage invitation are included in this box. Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II, brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude \"by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter, as subsequent correspondence show.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is addressed to \"My own dear Aunt\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"My dear sister\". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA proposal of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George is now in school at Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstruction work to be done at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNow a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\u0026amp;amp;quot; and \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrouble in: finding a teacher for her children; \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those \"distracting springs\u0026amp;amp;quot; for invalids.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe solution to a problem in surveying (this may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter was rumored to be engaged).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny Bland Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs in charge of the plantation since her mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace Lacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeronneau Brown and his brother, Thompson, are mentioned. (See letters of December 1855, Box-folder 6:44-45.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his daughters during his absence in the south.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas charge of the large plantation, keeping four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver busy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has not changed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to the commencement party at Hampden Sidney College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccompanying his uncle on a business trip, he has visited the main cities of the south and attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess that I have been rather disappointed in the people that live in these rich lands--they are as rough as possible...live in log houses and on the very poorest fare.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I suppose your wedding will be postponed unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually rapid.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P. Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I approve of your choice...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough affection for the old name to lay claim to it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he cannot attend the wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The King Wm. and Hanover Charaders. Positively their last appearance. At Stanley on Friday evening the 9th this brilliant Company....Ticket 1 ct., children and servants half price.\" A home performance by the Coalter and Bryan cousins. This item is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents These covers are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr. Boxes 7 - 13.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and business papers of Capt. Henry Brown, Revolutionary War veteran who opened a store in Bedford County, in 1793; Papers of Capt. Brown as Collector of Federal taxes on stills and real property. The Brown family papers begin with the letters and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), successful merchant of Bedford County and Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers are collected in the next section (Boxes 14-19). A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown, are included. The great bulk of the material, however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he opened a general store in Bedford soon after the conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the business, is preserved and the bulk of the material in this box pertains to the business of the store. A good picture of early merchandising is given by the accounts, letters relating to buying and selling trips, and the court actions taken to collect accounts. Beginning with folder 60, there are 39 items relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to 1803. 160 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Your friends here tremble for you and apprehend the worst from the dangers that encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping knife, tomahawk...return to us in all speed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle, found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning goods for a retail store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote for ll.9.3£, witnessed by Jack Beverley. Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1 September, 1793.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes letter from Israel Thompson regarding saddle goods in stock at the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommission of Daniel Brown as Ensign in a Company of Light Infantry, signed by Samuel Coleman and James Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts to Henry Brown for recording a deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to enter into a partnership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Richmond, Georgetown, and Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedicines received by Henry Brown from Howard Bennett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages. Unsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrrown's accounts as Tax Collector of the Bedford district.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his brother concerning tobacco prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning business affairs a suit for debt, purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had made you a Captain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecording a deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBonds in hands of Jeremiah Jenkins for collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of the new officers of the Farmer's Bank in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the division of Negroes, total value £815, between Leftwich and the Brown brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding loss of West India produce on which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear our loss will be considerable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns from the Regimental hospital of the 35th U.S. Infantry. Sig. William W. Southall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John Roberts on land that Captain Henry Brown sold to William Woodford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20 and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want of prudence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaxes collected by Robert Snoddy, in Bedford. 14 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstract of duties collected from owners of stills and distilleries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for monies received by James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Directions for sending tax collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter includes a copy of Federal instructions to tax collectors. 3 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted documents signed. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers include accounts, letters, notes, vouchers, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts concerning the Hancock and Brown store, Lynchburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the suit of Brown and Clayton vs. Pleasant Murphy, Bedford County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Henry Brown had many interests in his long life apart from the purely commercial activities upon which his considerable fortune was built. Included in this box are the papers relating to his other interests: Papers of Captain Henry Brown as Sheriff of Bedford County, Treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and of the New London Agricultural Society, and as executor of the estates of his brother, Daniel Brown, and father-in-law, John Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of subscriptions to the repair and improvement of New London Academy meeting house, Bedford County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from Brown's service as Treasurer of the New London Agricultural Society, Bedford County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of Daniel Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of John Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness papers of Henry Brown, not directly connected with any of his various business enterprises, but concerned principally with court suits involving debts to him. Included is an interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of trust of all his property to his creditors (11 April 1829 and 6 July 1833). Also includes papers concerned with the suit of Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840. Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning and releasing\" Leftwich.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness papers of Henry Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHousehold, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHousehold, family and personal bills of Henry Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars in Florida, where he served after he was commissioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his return from the Spring; attack of \"bilious Cholic\" and his treatment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the purchase of some land at $20 per acre...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe husband of Nancy Brown writes: \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvice on a move to the State of Ohio. \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe building of his house and the health of his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe value of the Deerwood tract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her visit to Washington: \"this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaving for New York to lay in goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: \"The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes about her marriage and the first meeting with her new relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brown is the son of Samuel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his marriage to Alice Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Alexander (Lockie T. Brown) Irvine is her sister. Her wedding trip to New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer sickness on the way down the river due to fresh paint in the boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaniel Brown is the son of Samuel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning eventual conversion of Baptists to the Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown is her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and reach George Town. The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans the day before I left-he was not married but expected to be the 9th of April.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the happy father of a fine boy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport to his father of his first grades at the Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his grandfather regarding his first term marks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"The first two years of our course are exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\" Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course of Studies at the Military Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Oklawaka River and St. Augustine, Florida. \"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it, this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid description of St. Augustine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written from Rose's Landing, Tennessee; Savannah, Georgia; and off Cape Hatteras. Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 letters. Total of 12 pages. Typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren of Captain Henry Brown: letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Captain Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and other members of the immediate family. Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his eyesight, went into the partnership of his father with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this part of the collection include a 44 page book of mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24 July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836). The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May 1836), are also included. The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the card which announced the opening of his law office in Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22 January 1842, mentions the business failures taking place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August of the same year comments on the national political situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\" 128 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\" (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this time, though he continued to suffer from the ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39 years.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note for $1,000.00. At this time he was getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson Brown from the members of the House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the business of Col. [Mark] Anthony, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears to be involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions the marriage of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr., for use on his trip to England and the Continent in that year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written to her husband on his trip. \"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him home).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews from a letter she received from Henry Brown, Jr. in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out of a slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"It's really a sad case for me, to be sick from home and away from all that (are) Dear to me...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown, Jr. was associated until he opened his own store in 1835. Includes autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Brother-in-law, Jack Willcox; his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a debt of Thomas Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes autographed draft. Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from the time of one of the buying trips that Henry Brown, Jr. made with his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter breaking from the partnership of Hancock and Brown, he opened his own store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Cover lost. Concerning the care for his horses, Young American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written while she and her husband were on a buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York, Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned. Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown during the final days in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and selling horses in order to settle the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfile by Professor William B. Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note regarding the settlement of the Henry Brown, Jr. estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown is his mother. Written from school, with endorsement by James Morrison, schoolmaster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Eleanor C. L. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. Guilford Brown is her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharge slips for failing to attend army musters between 1829 and 1839, 1839. 10 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel T. Brown is his his brother-in-law. Letter congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Alexander Irvine is her her sister-in-law. She writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her father, with whom she is living and for whom she is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful bride.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of the statement concerning the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis extended wedding trip; description of General Harrison's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt cost voucher recording transfer of 400 acres from Henry Brown to Samuel T. Brown, with tax receipt. 2 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter sent care of Judge Crawford at St. Stephens, Alabama. Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the death of W. W. Worthington, brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecording certain deeds for his son-in-law, Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned draft. Written to his overseer with whom he has quarreled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the payment of a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts of a letter to Mark Andrews. 2 items. Concerning the cutting of trees on the property of Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA reply to the above letter, Box-Folder 13:60.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel T. Brown is her brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstimate for the cost of the construction of a bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for postal expenses, April-June, 1849, signed H. Stevens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased by Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The sale of a female slave \"with her Brood.\" Samuel T. Brown is Edward Robinson's brother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820; traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican (now Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief illness. The first two letters in Box 14 date from the period of his attendance at New London Academy; then follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination before the faculty, and received the highest mark given at the College, in each of the three years he spent at the College. His report sheets show the requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and contain a resolution passed by the trustees which condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in town. Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in this period is interesting for the comments it contains on the Missouri question and other matters then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his collegiate period may be compared with his statements on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of the House of Delegates. After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions. Upon his return he took up the study of law with Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\" \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the trip West which reveal his first impressions of the Clarksburg area. At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing some of his published writings, speeches, and newspaper articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent...\" Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBehavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) \"If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class.\" (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\" Concerning Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew 162 fellow students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the \"present session of Congress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed: \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are the continuous drafts of a multiple of letters, continued July 8, 1831, Petersburg. The first section consists of musings and youthful recollections; the second is a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Alexander M. Jackson, at New London, to John Thompson Brown, regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes made at Judge Taylor's Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice law in the superior and inferior courts of this Commonwealth (Virginia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings on friendship and the wise behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter introducing John Thompson Brown when he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 pages. Musings written on a trip through Virginia: thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter were to be incorporated into an Independence Day address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people have no money and are wretchedly poor and lazy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis plans to establish himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe following newspaper clippings and pamphlets are included in a bound scrap book, with endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by John Thompson Brown himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the disclosure of his poverty...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"several cases of contempt of court, occurring in various parts of the Union, in which the punishment inflicted, has been made a subject of grievous complaint.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"The President's message.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\" signed John Thompson Brown\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The following copy of a Petition to the Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the request of a number of our Citizens.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 pages. \"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and addressed the house as follows:...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of the Commonwealth, to the stock of the Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time. Mr. Brown said...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then submitted the following Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President). Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the following by way of substitute for the above...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence while Brown established himself in Clarksburg, and while representing Harrison County in the General Assembly. The material in this box covers the period 1825 to 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the Clarksburg Enquirer, contained in the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr. Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825). In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This box also contains various printed and manuscript material touching upon his career in the General Assembly. By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and planned to buy into a partnership in a store to advance his financial position. In a letter of March 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next election for the U.S. Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses success spoken of and the probability of Clay's being made Secretary of State...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs, which his father apparently requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA flowery letter to an old friend from Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation at the bar and a practice that supports me very decently.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of an address to an investigating group (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a good and sufficient jail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is part of a printed letter concerning \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\" over the signature Alexander. (See bound scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesire of John Thompson Brown to run for the U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00 to help achieve this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe, a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the Legislature.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the next election...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn announcement of the candidacy of John Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He reviews what he considers to be the most important problems of the day, and discusses (1) the invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the calling of a Constitutional Convention for the state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the uncontrolled banking system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His election to the General Assembly; hope of election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in the debates of the House and do not expect to do so...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe note is \"in regard to the question whether Clinton or Calhoun should run as Vice-President on the Jackson ticket\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ride to Richmond in a coach with other, more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of state.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title: \"Report of a Committee Appointed To Enquire Into The Nature And Extent Of The Evils Arising From The Present Unsettled State Of Land Titles On The Western Waters Of Virginia, And To Devise A Remedy Therefor, With Leave To Report A Bill Or Otherwise\" 6 pages. 2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition to the General Assembly for a divorce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition to the General Assembly for a divorce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Resolving that members of the House of Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the cause of this Society before the General Assembly of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered the most able one that had been delivered in the House in 5 years.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are pleased to express so deep an interest, is I believe, making sure progress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis legislature activities and speeches. \"I am a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a copy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Deptartment F 247 H3B73. The second copy is located in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, under the same call number as above. 17 pages. A report to his constituents on such matters as (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court, (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the committee on this subject, which he chaired, and the bill proposed by the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComment on the land titles, Chancery court bills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I could desire and shall support myself hereafter without any further drafts on your goodness...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he discusses his prospects for Congress and of his plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder appointing John Thompson Brown Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Virginia Militia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes are initialed \"J. T. B.'s\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword Tactics.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflections on people met at the Medicinal Springs, as contrasted with those of his constituency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's commission to his father. During the year he borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father has agreed to advance enough capital for him to become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the General Assembly, he writes that he will be a candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed last session authorizing the county court to levy a tax for repairing roads and bridges.\" On March 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he predicts that the basis of votes for whites will be surrendered in the formation of the new State constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests they ride together to Alexandria, then go to Richmond by boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall among the rest...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from after his marriage to Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg (May 1830), and his move to that city, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1831. Also includes over one hundred toasts given at various occasions. The change which was to occur in the life and fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg circa December 1829, in which there is a discussion of \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (March 18, 1830) in a letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next letter in the collection (May 9, 1830), in draft, contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which was attended by no members of his immediate family. Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (July 22, 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the intention of resettling there and sending for his wife (May 2, 1831). During a four week visit to Harrison County, he finds his political position has declined (June 7, 1831), so he returns to Petersburg, and is invited to make the Independence Day address for the town (June 8, 1831). As a result of this address (and the good influence of his father-in-law) he is nominated to represent the town in the House of Delegates, and is elected without opposition (September 26, 1831). He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg Office of the Bank of Virginia (December 29, 1831), and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which is being established in Richmond (October 20, 1831). Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew outlining his philosophy of life and advising the young man on his future (October 3, 1831). A report of the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described in a letter of September 26, 1831. At the end of this box are collected more than a hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was cut down in the bud and You, my sweetest Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others believed I could certainly be elected to Congress next Spring...I wish to appear at P[etersburg]in a manner which would probably be expected and to avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution. Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if you can spare this additional sum you may hand it over to him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected and I cannot say that there was any other allay to my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my near relatives were present.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr. Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going to N. York to the races. They came with us thus far...\" There is much discussion about where they will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall reside in Petersburg...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his Washington visit: \"we remained a week, were introduced to the President, etc., heard some interesting debates and saw all the great men of the nation...My situation is in all respects agreeable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on her marriage coupled with much advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I have nothing to add on the subject of my future arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you seemed to approve when we were together.\" He writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to them his town house \"furnished with servants\u0026amp;amp;quot;; in another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500 and said that I should always have as much as I wanted...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends advice to his younger brother and, and account of his own situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters from Harrison County report that \"the District needs me badly...but it is too late...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I regret that you have temporarily declined public life--for I would not believe you have abondoned it altogether.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autographed draft. Advice given to a young man summarizing John Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that my position here was to be too dependent...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"At a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown, Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed drafts. The first important public speech of John Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears to have established his reputation, and which influenced his decision to remain there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his Independence Day address; the wisdom of his brother's decision to visit England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: See 25 April 1822, Box-folder 14:21, These are the continuous drafts of multiple letters. This draft concerns the second part which contains a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On July 25, he states that his brother has left on the packet for Baltimore on the way to Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On September 14 he writes that his wife has given birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau, \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A letter from Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown to John Thompson Brown encloses the letter from Henry Brown Jr. Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a result of which \"I become more and more an American in feeling and principle...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I was elected without opposition after announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton (Nat Turner), \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and children.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his opinions on the education of his nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in some measure of the prejudice against them--but think nevertheless that...southern firewould be none the worse for being somewhat cooled by the northern frost.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA new newspaper is proposed for the city of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to \"sharpers.\" Endorsed by Windham Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes the quarters he has for his wife and son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I think no measure can or ought to be taken now for the abolition of slavery...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the bill now before the Legislature on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of John Thompson Brown in the items included in this box. A member from Petersburg in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson Brown was placed in a position of leadership and strongly influenced the decisions taken in those critical years. His speech on the abolition of slavery was considered so important that Judge Henry St. George Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia delegation to the national convention of the Republican Party; his resolution of the Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the question of President Jackson's moves against the United States Bank was of particular concern to him (9 April 1833). Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his substitute motion on the question is included in this box, as well as his speech on The State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina, delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet form. John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S. Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified by years or experience (December 1832). An interesting report of his meeting with President Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson Brown to his wife (23 May 1832). Also included in this box are letters from John Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer (7 February, 3 March 1833). Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are included at the end of this box. 81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Murray Mason (1798-1871).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Finley's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of engrossing interest...South Carolina is unquestionably wrong and as long as she remains in the Union, must obey its laws...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Doc. No. 14. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. Mr. Marshall's Substitute to the Report... Doc. No. 16. Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina, the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the communication of the governor of this Commonwealth on the same subject.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivered January 5, 1833. Richmond: Thomas W. White, printer. 1833. 42 pages. 3 copies. After stating his opposition to protective tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent of the Constitution, rather than a violation of its literal principles.\" He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the United States on his general policy but disputes the Proclamation of the President on other grounds, basing his argument on The Law of Nationsby E. de Vattel. As to the action of South Carolina, he contends that there is no possibility of nullification under the Constitution, but that the redress of the wrong done in the tariff act must come by recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\" acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an amendment to the Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Substitute Submitted By Mr. Brown, Petersburg, For the Amended Report of the Committee on Federal Relations\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompliments John Thompson Brown on his resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I was anxious myself that Virginia should maintain an impartial and just attitude toward both S. Carolina and the President, but far the greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I thought there was error on both sides...\" He remarks that Edward [Steptoe]has been successful in getting his appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr. Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\u0026amp;amp;quot; but \"without...your letter...the application could scarcely have been successful.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies. Printed manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point; report of the enforcing bill in the President's proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In July he announces the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe two items are signed Julian. \"On seeing Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by John Thompson Brown about this period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Thompson Brown, Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by John Thompson Brown during portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions of the General Assembly. The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the legislative battle fought and lost against the Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown believed would have disastrous effects on the future of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy the rough and tumble of party politics then developing. Also of interest are the draft of a speech delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates (January 1835). 44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews that his brother, Samuel, is ill at Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on his progress at the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in the Assembly; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not dead.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA patent for producing domestic salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElection of a U.S. Senator, for which he has been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end of February and beginning of March he is kept in bed with an illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his views of the political situation, mentioning the message President Jackson sent to Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which he will bring with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's brother, to start his study of law with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn J. Allen (1797-1871)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sold bank shares to help his brother go into business for himself; gives advice on racing horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a speech delivered in Petersburg on the occasion of the death of Lafayette. 43 pages. Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of his progress at the U.S. Military Academy. John Thompson Brown is the uncle of Edward J. Steptoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a letter sending condolences for the death of a sister and congratulations on the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents His resignation from the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"No subject arouses anybody except the senatorial election.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe offers to place all his monetary resources at the service of his brother in his new business venture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters, 1 draft. On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter, which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a fight in the halls of the General Assembly between himself and John Hampden Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of apology for the battle fought in the halls of the Virginia Capitol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of his speech which was \"better received than anything I have ever made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA speech \"...upon the Election of a Senator in Congress: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia\". 28 pages. Printed book. Points out the importance of this election for \"future political events and party combinations in the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr. Leigh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Thompson Brown. 70 pages. Autographed Manuscript. Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of the House of Deputies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on taxes, license fees, and the like, prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates. 116 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from February 1835, until his death in November 1836; manuscripts of four articles written to oppose the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President. The closing sessions of the State Legislature of 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a street fight with an opponent in which he receives a black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins the election (April 1835). Before the next session of the legislature, John Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more material on the question of slavery (August 1835), and prepared three long drafts written in opposition to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are included at the end of the 1835 section. Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store. The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of his brother, and his activity in settling his brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the letters included in this box. At the end of July he takes his family to his father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which keeps him there until his death on 26 November 1836. 104 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a son, John Thompson Brown II, and tells his brother that he had ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the store that he had opened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Political activity in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"The Jackson party has brought out the most popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite likely he will beat me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\" There is also a report of a street fight between John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chances of Van Buren to carry Virginia in the election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlans to retire from politics and seek a position as Judge of the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has sent a box of books to help him in his law studies, and describes a visit by his old friend Peronneau Finley and his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his father about plans to visit him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Drafts on the subject of the northern resolutions on slavery, particularly those recently passed in Portland and Boston. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family discussion, especially concerned with the sisters who were yet to find husbands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the election of John Thompson Brown as an honorary member of the Jefferson Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe content is on the stand of Mr. Van Buren on emancipation. 28 numbered columns. Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on this topic.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on this topic. Also includes an additional 2 page insertion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on this topic. The series of drafts is in opposition to Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President of the United States. 48 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood reports of the new business venture of his brother, Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his brother, on a buying trip to New York; political prospects now look bright, but \"the state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommission as Captain in the Cavalry of the Virginia Militia. Signed by Wyndham Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Captain John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Thompson Brown writes five letters from Hobson's Inn, Homes, Otter Hills, and Lynchburg. On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his Lynchburg store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that morning for Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Taking inventory at the store of his late brother; preparing to settle his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports on the stocktaking in the store of Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the last letter from John Thompson Brown to his father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was taken with the illness from which he died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the disposal of the store inventory; sends a piano to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMourning his brother's death, he makes arrangements for his own family to join him. (This is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown preserved in this collection.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her uncle regarding the recent death of her father, Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes regarding the settling of the store business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John Thompson Brown, 29 years\" envelope marked, \"For sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave, Nov. 13th, 1845, Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington,\" with clover leaves inside.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Robert B. Bolling, Chairman. A resolution in memory of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution that the members wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John Thompson Brown, by William A. Dod.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the unanimous resolution of the House of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her father-in-law. Mrs. Mary E. Brown is the widow of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn service as Executors of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the region around Bedford, Virginia. 40 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 pages. Draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autographed draft. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bounties offered for Indian scalps in Bedford between 1755 and 1758.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction details.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman. There are also nineteenth century engravings. Boxes 20 - 24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4, 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to submit. John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by the members of his company (December 1, 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and belt (April 23, 1861) mark the beginning of action, and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a transfer to a more active field of war and an extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The box concludes with items which appear to have been on the person of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, when he was killed in action on 6 May 1864. 83 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 pages. Draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReferences to Douglas and the threat to slavery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on ammunition on hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a suggestion for winter furloughs in order to extend the length of service in the fighting season.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by West and Johnson, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a dispute arising between the two over John Thompson Brown's command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by W. H. Taylor and Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton. 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autographed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for whitewashing two rooms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest the return of his report on the battle of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to General Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook containing several commissions, leather bound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 copies. Printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph poem and newspaper text; \"Lines written on seeing 'Rifle' the war-horse of Col. J. T. B....\" from the Richmond Dispatch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe marker titled \"Thompson Brown\" has blue ribbons attached.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She expresses concern that her son is more interested in affairs other than his studies (March 1, 1849). His school career is traced briefly through his years at the University of Virginia (June 28, 1851). The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau Brown and his fiancee, Frances Bland Coalter, 1858, lead into the family correspondence which completes this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker Papers.) From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern farmer to re-establish himself after the war. 108 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written to Samuel T. Brown while he was in Charleston, South Carolina and New London, Virginia. The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is attending school in South Carolina. He was devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of college life and not enough to his studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulating him on his success at Charleston College; a proposed biography of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for 65 pounds of ice to Henry Peronneau Brown from Long and Stevens, Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 5 letters. Affectionate letters to her fiance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home is so lovely and you are so happy...for its mountain scenery.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the failing health of their mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Cover lacking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of an infant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to his sister, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Eight calling cards in a cover addressed to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is heading him to the madhouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents She writes of the ladies making vests and shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees have landed at Hampton; the first of the war casualties in the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have just been received which we are to turn our attention to at once.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis house was set afire and cannon are firing all about. Comments on \"the tennessee company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this antiquated spot\u0026amp;amp;quot; because her husband was drilling some new troops and sent for her to join him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Stanley, the family home, to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir brother, Henry, is at a camp near Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown and others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of exchanged prisoners...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written while Henry was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to his sister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wheat delivered. Signed A. Wynne and L. Hatchet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for someone to serve the Presbyterian Church at Tappahannock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bill brought in Chancery Court by John R. Bryan against H. B. Tomlin, executor of St. George Tucker Coalter. The settlement of the John Randolph estate which was in litigation for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefuses a request for $500 by his nephew; recommends that he stop drinking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts with stores. 3 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote written on an early \"penny post card.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letters written to his sister as he made a start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before as I am now...I have not spent during the whole year on myself more than $10...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later to marry John Thompson Brown III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home Remedies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of Cassie Tucker, wife of John Thompson Brown III. \"You have introduced into your home a very sunbeam.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is addressed to \"Fanny\", his sister-in-law, and concerns the death of John Coalter II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement concerning the trust for Mrs. Fanny B. Brown (Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autographed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this box concerning John Thompson Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter. There are 6 report cards from The University School, Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a pamphlet of Resolutions Passed in 1894, 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School Act. Many of the letters in the collection are from Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as photographs of some members of the family and pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Captain Henry Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown III. At the end of the box is a notebook containing sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for her son John Thompson Brown III. 80 items. (John Thompson Brown III, son of Henry Peronneau Brown, who married Cassie Tucker, thus reuniting the family with the Tucker line.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her son (John Thompson Brown III) urging him to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and say your prayers every day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA description of the London Museum and Zoo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport cards from University School, some countersigned by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown. 6 items. Printed document signed. Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown III, when the reports were sent home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper written on Martin Luther.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Bible reading as the antidote for \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered through the classical writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman; the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are in the care of Mrs. Coleman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA child's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely restored.\" Beverly Tucker and Braxton Bryan are mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy at Jamestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are addressed to \"Thompson\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs, one of John Thompson Brown IV and his sister, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, with a servant, Aunt Jane; the other of the house, Ivy Cliff, originally called Otter Hill. Photostat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"...make haste and get well enough to come home where you are much missed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a separate sermon. Autographed draft signed. \"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it carefully and may God have mercy on his soul. Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September 1894.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterial related to the Brown and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A. Adams are placed at the beginning of the box. Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska, relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member of the family, Captain David Tucker Brown, is represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from France when he was serving as a member of the American Commission to negotiate peace. Seventeen undated items concerning unidentified persons are grouped at the end of the box. 85 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention, 1901-2.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEditorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCandidacy for the position of Lieutenant Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeriodical. Pages 125-139. Printed manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Newsclippings regarding William B. Allison, Theodore Roosevelt, and \"The Political Situation, 1876-1908\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsclippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker taken from the Nome Daily Nugget, Nome Democrat and Nome Industrial Worker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the Farmer's Winter Institute in Agriculture, 1913-1914, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom \"The World\", New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Covers lacking. With the \"American Commission to Negotiate Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson Brown IV, of Wilmington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA proclamation by Westmoreland Davis, Governor. Also Includes a song sheet of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. 2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDate unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary War service claim, draft on the Bank of Virginia, and article surviving soldier's payments. 3 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"From private who served you on the memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation from the Royal Geographical Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autographed draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn alphabetical list of flowers with the characteristics of each expressed symbolically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings of pictures from engravings, plus some advertisements and copies of publications. Circa 400 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 columns of news clippings from \"Central Presbyterian.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 poems, news clippings and a clipping with sheet music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated London News, December 18, 1866.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristmas supplement from the Illustrated London News, December 18, 1869.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 clippings of engravings about archaeology.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 clippings of engravings about farming and husbandry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 clippings of engravings of churches destroyed in the Chicago fire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 clippings of Civil War engravings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 clippings of engravings of zoological topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 clippings of engravings about the Crimea when occupied by Russian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSupplement to Harper's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeekly cartoons appearing in Harper's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages from the April 1872 issue of Hearth and Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClipping of Masthead of Harper's Monthly with an engraving of Clothes and Styles. November 29, 1872.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover page of the New York Fireside Companion. November 18, 1873.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive sections of the November 1873 edition of Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOctober 18, 1874 pamphlet \"Pastoral Letter\" written by T.D. Witherspoon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour clippings of engravings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Family Almanac.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull June 16, 1877 issue of Illustrated Christian Weekly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1883 Calendar sheet for Hiram Sibley \u0026amp;amp; Co., Seedsman, in color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarge foldout of the family tree of Queen Victoria from the Illustrated London News, \"Jubilee edition.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1896 price list for U.S. Stamps by N.E. Carter of Delavan, Wisconsin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree color illustrations with a poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Golden Horseshoe\" pamphlet with illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSix book sale advertisements by different publishers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA completed form for \"self-measurement\" for suits by the company, Noah Walker and Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive advertising cards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive advertisements for carriages, ranges, safes, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive sheets of medical advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for playing the Monneuse Turkish Tubephone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 page notebook with pasted clippings of engravings of different subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped transcriptions prepared by Yolande (Lonnie) Dobbs, of material pertaining to John Thompson Brown in boxes 7 to 19. She chose material to transcribe that would \"provide a fuller picture of Brown, his family and his political career at a time in American and Virginian history when a number of significant events were taking place. The issues of slavery, states rights, tariffs, elections of Senators, the Bank of the United States, presidential elections and the changing political parties were issues of vital importance to John Thompson Brown.\" Transcribed from 1998-2005. CD of transcriptions is available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction gives genealogical information of the Brown Family, beginning with Henry Brown who died in 1757 in New Jersey. Includes transcriptions of legal transactions, letters and other documents (not from this collection) which show the procession of the Brown Family from New Jersey to parts of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInventory of Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I. Typed and carbon transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Also, handwritten transcriptions that are not typed. Includes notes on possible subject arrangement of the transcriptions. The following folders may loosely follow this order. Includes processing notes, genealogical information and a partial inventory. The project appears to be incomplete. The author of these transcriptions may be Lonny Dobbs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo typed carbon inventories of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I, entitled \"...containing papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Harrison County and Petersburg.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters from 1814 to 1822.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters for 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript and one carbon transcript of letters from 1818 to 1824.  Noted as \"Letters of J.T. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne typed transcript, two carbon transcripts and the handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings from J.T. Brown's scrapbook. 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William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","This finding aid is also available in microfilm format in Swem Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge. Boxes 1-6.","The series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College.  221 items.","Note concerning the gift \"Received from Mrs. Fleming Saunders, of Evington, Virginia, in exchange for a scholarship grant to Miss Frances Bland Saunders,\" 3 March 1947.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin, as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3. Brown, as connected with Coalter and Tucker.","Chart of Coalter and Brown families compiled by Jennifer Boone for an honors thesis.","Sheets of sundry genealogical notes.","Notes concerning John Coalter (1769-1838).","Topical poems of this period written by John Coalter, Maria Rind, St. George Tucker, William Munford, and others.","Autobiographical sketch of John Coalter until his 18th birthday. Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge County; his responsibility for the farm while his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning 40£ per year as usher for John Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St. George Tucker to move because the plantation, Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no longer pay John Coalter 30£ per annum; offers to give legal training in exchange for tutoring services.","His father hopes that John Coalter will return home, to the higher country, for the \"sickly season.\"","Physical Location: See medium oversize file. Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at Dickinson College, and congratulates John Coalter on his chance to study law with St. George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr. Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for three and six years respectively, were freed by the army in Detroit.","James Rind, had been studying law with St. George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in the household of St. George Tucker, where she cared for the children.","Concerning his wedding trip.","Covers lacking. John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Scope and Contents Approval of the Constitution by South Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian War in Georgia. \"Brother Davidis over in Gloucester. If he has success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will be ready to sett (sic) out on our route to the South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I mean the loss of Health and a good complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the farm while he is getting started in his law practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without riches...however deserving of a better fate the poor always meet with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned at an early age and were helped by the Tuckers.)","Physical Location: For letters of 16 June 1790, 4 July 1790, and 7 Sept. 1790 see medium oversize file. 12 letters. His father does not have land to give him at that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has decided to move to Staunton, and continue his studies. In September he writes that he hopes to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great difficulty and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry, Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me faster in the world than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he, casts a light upon all around him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your gallantry but am affeared it has been attended with some accident which occasioned your move to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to establish himself and be in a position to support her as his wife.)","Physical Location: For letters of 6 April 1791 and 15 April 1791 see medium oversize file. 18 letters. After obtaining his license in Williamsburg, John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather have the approbation of that man than worlds for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to the torment by John Randolph; plans are made for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to remarry; she wishes to move up the date of their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by him...\"","Physical Location: For letter of 23 April 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 3 letters. \"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr. Wythe, I live in his house and board at his table...In this happy situation tomorrow I begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become Mrs. Tucker.\"","2 letters. Covers lacking. On the return of a wagon and horses; purchases of additional farm animals.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: For letter of 22 July 1791 see Medium Oversize File. 4 letters. Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown) was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","Scope and Contents This law practice is discouraging; entrusts Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across the Alps\"-- there are too many lawyers already.","Covers lacking. Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe. Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly, and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith. Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children she will be bringing to the marriage.","Scope and Contents Description of George Washington delivering an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter, addressed to \"Fan\", was written soon after Mrs. Coalter had gone to Staunton with her husband.","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\". On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs. Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Scope and Contents Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or 20£ per year as a clerk.","Scope and Contents The letter from Edinburgh contains an interesting description of life in the Scottish capital, the coldness of his fellow students until they are introduced, and his warm reception by a family to which he had a letter of introduction.","Scope and Contents Reports that there are about forty students at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W\u0026amp;M,\" and his mother proposes to send him to Harvard.","Enquires about Maria and their expected first child. (Both mother and child died.)","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina. The \"distressing news\" that his wife has died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his wife; reports the Independence Day orations at the College of William and Mary, and mentions the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed French immigrants at Norfolk.","The subseries covers the correspondence of John Coalter during his second marriage to Margaret Davenport, and in the early years of his third marriage, to Frances Bland Tucker. Correspondence from St. George Tucker, Mrs. Lelia Tucker, Mrs. Judith Randolph, and others is included. The material traces the legal career of John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk of the Court in Staunton, through the period of his second and third marriages to Margaret Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances Bland Tucker, 1802. Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker, her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and others. Correspondence with William Munford, in Williamsburg, is also included. 164 items.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","Scope and Contents William Munford has returned to the College of William and Mary, and is \"in constant attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs. Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to lose a newborn child.\"","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at her character\"; makes insulting statements regarding John Coalter's late wife. John Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny Stuart into court, after which she offers to return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships, including three men of war, five or six frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the presence of the French fleet and a British frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\"; for her, but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to her.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on the occasion of her marriage to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs. Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding divorce of F.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\"; and Indian victory are mentioned and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Orangeburg, South Carolina and Louisville, Georgia. Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs. Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"; (the death of John Coalter's second wife in childbirth; the child also died.)","Scope and Contents Business letter concerning collections to be made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with the name of Tucker\"; and that she \"had better look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph, half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been linked with her sister in the famous scandal proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances Tucker.","Scope and Contents Fanny B. Tucker has just married John Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at the age of 18.","Scope and Contents Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters. Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the Warm Springs for her health in September.","Scope and Contents The letters are written from Richmond, Elm Grove, and Lexington. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to Williamsburg for the birth of her first child, Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of Lexington Academy.","The letters are written from Williamsburg, Haymarket, and Fredericksburg.","Scope and Contents John Coalter was on the court circuit.","Scope and Contents The letters are undated, but are replies to those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second wife of John Coalter, who continued to live with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St. George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Scope and Contents Death of her husband and her straitened circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure his deafness.","Scope and Contents In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker set out for Staunton in order to be there for the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents First mention of the second Coalter child, Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of his second daughter and the purchase of Elm Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her disappointment over his continued deafness Dr. Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over the servants. Illness of Polly the seamstress.","Scope and Contents Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","Scope and Contents John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","Scope and Contents The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary Coalter.","Scope and Contents Small pox.","Scope and Contents Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter).","Scope and Contents Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every summer at the medicinal springs for her health.","Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint George Tucker (June 14, 1809) upon the occasion of the birth of his first grandson, St. George Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the academies and colleges of that day. Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; the family then moved to Richmond. There are many letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs. Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and from other members of the family. There also are many letters to the daughters of John Coalter, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married Beverley Tucker and Polly Coalter and writes concerning her sons Saint George and Tudor.","Scope and Contents Letters written by John Coalter from Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanhawa Court House, and Richmond during spring and autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm Grove, and other matters.","Instructions for planting and penning up of a farm.","Scope and Contents One of the letters concerns the troubles with the English and the hope for a peaceful settlement.","Scope and Contents Three letters written from Richmond and Williamsburg. In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter) \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will never descend from the dignity of a private station.\" Concerning the education of his grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our youth, or the management of their tutor, shall undergo a most surprising and happy change in this Country, I had rather he should never hear of an Academy or a College, than enter the walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"She must come to us, as soon as she can leave Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas, that she may complete the clothing of the Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the district. About the war situation: \"We are more Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our wholetrade to aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we would only give the revenue arising from trade.\"","Scope and Contents Her parents were trying to buy a cook for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great success.","Scope and Contents These five letters although undated, are believed to have been written in 1810.","Scope and Contents Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently by the youth of the town.","Scope and Contents Eleven letters written from Richmond and Staunton. John Coalter attending the spring and autumn sittings of the Circuit Court, sends instructions for the management of the farm.","Scope and Contents Six letters discuss news of the farm, the slaves, and family. Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm and permission for him to visit his daughter in Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","David Coalter, Mary's father.","Scope and Contents Letters from William McPheeter, J. W. Allison, Joseph C. Cabell, Polly A. Steele, and William Kinney to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter (relatives of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) are placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents The four letters from M.S. Baldwin, M. Bush, Arch. Stuart, and \"M. T.,\" in Richmond and Petersburg, are undated but are presumed to date from 1811, and placed in one folder.","Scope and Contents Five letters written from Lewisburg and Kanahwa. In May, John Coalter writes of his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help me, I know not what to do. All have advised my acceptance.\" In October he writes of arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","Scope and Contents In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such long periods when John Coalter is absent on the court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\" their two year old son St. George Tucker Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest assured that no other Judge of the General Court will accept the office which is tendered you.\"","Scope and Contents John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs. Judith Randolph.","Scope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.","Scope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.","Scope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action \"is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an Event not far off.\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.","Scope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.","Scope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.","Scope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Scope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","The cover has the date and \"J. Randolph, Jr.\" endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\" his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th instant.\"","Scope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)","Scope and Contents She writes that \"the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months.\" Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.","Scope and Contents Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","Scope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.","Children of John Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter and St. George Tucker Coalter; their spouses; children and other extended family","Correspondence primarily of the two surviving children of John and Francis Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith H. Tomlin Coalter. Includes genealogical material on the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H. Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the collection from this time until her death in 1859. The last letters from their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special note is a letter of October 1831 in which St. George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and misunderstanding in the family, and appears to cast a slur on his step-father St. George Tucker. The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his wife and sister, especially those written from the springs which he visits each year, form the largest single group. In these letters an interesting picture of nineteenth century social life is to be found.","Typescript.","Scope and Contents School girl letters written by J. H. T. before her marriage.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit to America.","Scope and Contents Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate Virgilia Savage in December on her marriage.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled, Generous Gentleman.\"","Scope and Contents Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents St. George Tucker complains about his sight and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in the first of these letters. The last is endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most dear Grandfather's illness and death are omitted and put to themselves.\"","Scope and Contents These two letters were written after the death of St. George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\" reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.","Scope and Contents The first letter is a printed invitation to a ball at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added; the second letter is a Temperance pledge signed by St. George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and three others.","Scope and Contents Evidently left in charge of his father's estate, Chatham, he writes concerning examinations at the College of William and Mary and of his experiences in vaccinating and performing minor operations on the slaves. (He was a 20 year old farmer with no medical training.)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave school to marry.","The letter is to Judith Tomlin Coalter after her marriage to St. George Tucker Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) made an attack on the Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter), finding no one else would rise to their defense, answered him...\"","Scope and Contents His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring sickness which was to bring on his early death in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter family home, for the birth of her first child, Walker Tomlin Coalter.","Scope and Contents In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he writes describing Randolph's estate and personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and entertains me highly with his conversation on all subjects...He is a man of the finest and nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","Scope and Contents Two letters concerning her husband's financial difficulties.","Scope and Contents Writes to his sister about crops, planting, and the like.","Scope and Contents The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter, are infants; this letter is written by St. George Tucker Coalter.","Scope and Contents In the January letter, he announces the birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes on July 27 that \"the shortness of breath and the hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Scope and Contents Her husband is at the Springs; she would like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says he never wished for money before, as the want of it keeps him from having company...\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Charlottesville, White Sulphur Springs, Warm Springs, Sweet Springs, and Salt Sulphur Springs. An interesting group of letters describing life at several of the medicinal springs which were so popular in the 19th century. He describes his daily regimen, the meals, the baths, other tourists, the costs, and the physical characteristics of the resorts.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband about family matters while he is at the springs for his health.","Scope and Contents A continuation of his previous letters, including a crude drawing of the buildings and grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","Scope and Contents In November she mentions that Beverley Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write, add their notes to the letter to their grandfather.","Scope and Contents Her husband is overworking, and she fears for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a position with a Richmond company.","Scope and Contents He writes about his poor health; mentions his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very much concerned with gold mine projects; he now orders St. George Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has decided that the family shall move closer to him. They are dependent on John Coalter financially.","Scope and Contents Life at the springs, his continuing illness and his poverty.","Scope and Contents His discouragement as he contemplates the move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven years we have to begin the world afresh and fix and build and lay out and all that -- oh thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent County, to St. George's Park, King William County, and the difficulty of the move.","Scope and Contents John Coalter is very ill, and the new place is slow in getting established. Mention of the will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in which the good name of St. George Tucker is slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of St. George Tucker are also involved.","Scope and Contents Home has not been settled since leaving Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor, with a new house but a very indifferent one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home where his late father John Coalter forced him to move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never financially independent of his father). A doctor's prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal springs and regular exercise. Four months later St. George Tucker Coalter died. The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add to the correspondence as the years go on, for the families are very attached to one another and there is much visiting back and forth as well as letter writing. The letters of the cousins have been combined in this collection, so that an interesting picture is given of the life of this period; see a report of a traveling entertainer who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8 February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a Girl's school (2 February 1852). There is much discussion of diseases which were prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","Scope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.","Scope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning.\" (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.","Scope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down.\"","Scope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me out.\"","Autographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, \"The last line I ever got from him.\"","(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.","Unsigned and undated.","Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.","Scope and Contents Of her poverty and of the need for means to educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Scope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.","Scope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)","Scope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him...\"","Scope and Contents He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the coldest and most melancholy place in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Hopes to get a place from the sale of the estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a long time not to have a house to call your own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so, perhaps, some money may have been received from the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take dancing lesson of 2 hours length every Saturday.\"","Scope and Contents Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Consumption and Cholera are discussed as well as the final division of the estate. Mrs. Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of her own. Sons John and Henry left in September for the University of Virginia where they room with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J. Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A dreadful affair has lately occurred at the University, one young man killed another, both intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as that is, it takes the cold blooded yankees to perpetrate the refinement of barbarism in stewing, and boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that he has had charge of the harvest at the farm because the overseer was sick. He has also advised the local doctors on Cholera cures: \"Mama received your letter by the last post and was much obliged to you for the copy you sent her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it reached here I have copied it twice for different doctors who seemed much pleased with the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the affectionate relationship between the two continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into Ellwood, the former summer home of John Coalter.","Scope and Contents Letters written before and after a long visit. There were ties between the families despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter fears her youngest son, Saint George, has Typhoid fever.","Scope and Contents A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs. Washington.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking. About life in the great houses of Virginia, excursions on river boats, dances, and the like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a man from a woman. They go about in this costume for some time and have a dance...one gentleman went draped as a lady and no one found him out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his beads...\"","Scope and Contents \"When will your new house, or rather, new home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's mother has finally been able to buy a house, Stanley.)","The letter is addressed to \"My dear Cousin\".","Scope and Contents Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a lastingpeace and the welfare of my children preys very much on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s school have reached us from different quarters and report says Jinney and yourself acted a conspicuous part.\"","Scope and Contents A school friend writes of her textbooks: \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French Studies.\"","Scope and Contents Includes a most interesting account of trip by boat from Gloucester County, via Jamestown, to Richmond.","Scope and Contents The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's youngest child.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B. Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for license to practice law; reports on his brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school; her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families were brought together into one. The collection gives an interesting picture of the life and interests of a young lady of moderate circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr. Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with Fanny, although he was a married man with several children. The correspondence became more ardent in the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there. According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton, she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June 1856, and 19 March 1857. Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors, however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854, a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year later there are reports of her interest in the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg, both of whom were courting her. She finally settled on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage invitation are included in this box. Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II, brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.","Scope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.","Scope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude \"by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter, as subsequent correspondence show.)","Letter is addressed to \"My own dear Aunt\".","The letter is addressed to \"My dear sister\". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Scope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend.\"","Scope and Contents \"I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Covers lacking.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.","Scope and Contents To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\u0026amp;quot; and \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children; \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those \"distracting springs\u0026amp;quot; for invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Scope and Contents Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace Lacy.\"","Peronneau Brown and his brother, Thompson, are mentioned. (See letters of December 1855, Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has not changed.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden Sidney College.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he has visited the main cities of the south and attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess that I have been rather disappointed in the people that live in these rich lands--they are as rough as possible...live in log houses and on the very poorest fare.\"","Scope and Contents \"I suppose your wedding will be postponed unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P. Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I approve of your choice...\"","Scope and Contents \"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough affection for the old name to lay claim to it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These letters are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","\"The King Wm. and Hanover Charaders. Positively their last appearance. At Stanley on Friday evening the 9th this brilliant Company....Ticket 1 ct., children and servants half price.\" A home performance by the Coalter and Bryan cousins. This item is undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Scope and Contents These covers are undated but probably received before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr. Boxes 7 - 13.","Correspondence and business papers of Capt. Henry Brown, Revolutionary War veteran who opened a store in Bedford County, in 1793; Papers of Capt. Brown as Collector of Federal taxes on stills and real property. The Brown family papers begin with the letters and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), successful merchant of Bedford County and Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers are collected in the next section (Boxes 14-19). A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown, are included. The great bulk of the material, however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he opened a general store in Bedford soon after the conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the business, is preserved and the bulk of the material in this box pertains to the business of the store. A good picture of early merchandising is given by the accounts, letters relating to buying and selling trips, and the court actions taken to collect accounts. Beginning with folder 60, there are 39 items relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to 1803. 160 items.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and apprehend the worst from the dangers that encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping knife, tomahawk...return to us in all speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle, found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Note for ll.9.3£, witnessed by Jack Beverley. Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1 September, 1793.\"","Scope and Contents Includes letter from Israel Thompson regarding saddle goods in stock at the store.","Commission of Daniel Brown as Ensign in a Company of Light Infantry, signed by Samuel Coleman and James Wood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Receipts to Henry Brown for recording a deed.","Agreement to enter into a partnership.","Letters written from Richmond, Georgetown, and Baltimore.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia.","Carried by Daniel Brown to Philadelphia","Medicines received by Henry Brown from Howard Bennett.","14 pages. Unsigned.","Brrown's accounts as Tax Collector of the Bedford district.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt, purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had made you a Captain.\"","Recording a deed.","Bonds in hands of Jeremiah Jenkins for collection.","Includes a list of the new officers of the Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total value £815, between Leftwich and the Brown brothers.","Printed document signed.","Regarding loss of West India produce on which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear our loss will be considerable.\"","Returns from the Regimental hospital of the 35th U.S. Infantry. Sig. William W. Southall","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John Roberts on land that Captain Henry Brown sold to William Woodford.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20 and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want of prudence.\"","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes an autographed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Taxes collected by Robert Snoddy, in Bedford. 14 pages.","Includes printed document signed.","Includes autographed document signed.","Abstract of duties collected from owners of stills and distilleries","Receipts for monies received by James.","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Directions for sending tax collections.","20 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","28 pages.","Letter includes a copy of Federal instructions to tax collectors. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Printed documents signed. Autographed draft.","Business records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.","Papers include accounts, letters, notes, vouchers, etc.","Accounts concerning the Hancock and Brown store, Lynchburg, Virginia.","Papers relating to the suit of Brown and Clayton vs. Pleasant Murphy, Bedford County, Virginia.","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his long life apart from the purely commercial activities upon which his considerable fortune was built. Included in this box are the papers relating to his other interests: Papers of Captain Henry Brown as Sheriff of Bedford County, Treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and of the New London Agricultural Society, and as executor of the estates of his brother, Daniel Brown, and father-in-law, John Thompson.","Accounts of subscriptions to the repair and improvement of New London Academy meeting house, Bedford County.","Records from Brown's service as Treasurer of the New London Agricultural Society, Bedford County.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of Daniel Brown.","Papers from Brown's service as executor of the estate of John Thompson.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly connected with any of his various business enterprises, but concerned principally with court suits involving debts to him. Included is an interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of trust of all his property to his creditors (11 April 1829 and 6 July 1833). Also includes papers concerned with the suit of Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840. Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning and releasing\" Leftwich.","Business papers of Henry Brown","Household, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.","Household, family and personal bills of Henry Brown","Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars in Florida, where he served after he was commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of \"bilious Cholic\" and his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20 per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes: \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio. \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)","Scope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.","Scope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.","Henry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Scope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)","William Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: \"The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel.\"","Scope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)","Henry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.","Scope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.","Scope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","Scope and Contents The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes about her marriage and the first meeting with her new relatives.","William Brown is the son of Samuel.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Mrs. Alexander (Lockie T. Brown) Irvine is her sister. Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to fresh paint in the boat.","Daniel Brown is the son of Samuel.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to the Presbyterian Church.","Henry Brown is her father.","Scope and Contents \"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and reach George Town. The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans the day before I left-he was not married but expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term marks.","Scope and Contents \"The first two years of our course are exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\" Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written from Oklawaka River and St. Augustine, Florida. \"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it, this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid description of St. Augustine.","Scope and Contents Letters written from Rose's Landing, Tennessee; Savannah, Georgia; and off Cape Hatteras. Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","8 letters. Total of 12 pages. Typescript.","Children of Captain Henry Brown: letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Captain Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and other members of the immediate family. Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his eyesight, went into the partnership of his father with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this part of the collection include a 44 page book of mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24 July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836). The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May 1836), are also included. The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the card which announced the opening of his law office in Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22 January 1842, mentions the business failures taking place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August of the same year comments on the national political situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\" 128 items.","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\" (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this time, though he continued to suffer from the ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39 years.)","A note for $1,000.00. At this time he was getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson Brown from the members of the House of Delegates.","Scope and Contents Concerning the business of Col. [Mark] Anthony, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears to be involved.","Includes autographed document signed.","44 pages","Includes autographed document signed.","Scope and Contents Mentions the marriage of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr., for use on his trip to England and the Continent in that year.","56 pages","Scope and Contents Letters written to her husband on his trip. \"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him home).","News from a letter she received from Henry Brown, Jr. in England.","Scope and Contents Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out of a slave.","\"It's really a sad case for me, to be sick from home and away from all that (are) Dear to me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown, Jr. was associated until he opened his own store in 1835. Includes autographed document.","Scope and Contents Brother-in-law, Jack Willcox; his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Includes autographed draft. Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from the time of one of the buying trips that Henry Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock and Brown, he opened his own store.","Scope and Contents Cover lost. Concerning the care for his horses, Young American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is away.","Scope and Contents Written while she and her husband were on a buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York, Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and died.","Unsigned. Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown during the final days in New York.","Scope and Contents An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and selling horses in order to settle the estate.","Profile by Professor William B. Rogers.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry Brown, Jr. estate.","Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown is his mother. Written from school, with endorsement by James Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","H. Guilford Brown is her son.","Charge slips for failing to attend army musters between 1829 and 1839, 1839. 10 items. Printed document signed.","Samuel T. Brown is his his brother-in-law. Letter congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Mrs. Alexander Irvine is her her sister-in-law. She writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her father, with whom she is living and for whom she is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful bride.\"","Draft of the statement concerning the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","His extended wedding trip; description of General Harrison's house.","Court cost voucher recording transfer of 400 acres from Henry Brown to Samuel T. Brown, with tax receipt. 2 items. Printed document signed.","Letter sent care of Judge Crawford at St. Stephens, Alabama. Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T. Brown.","A letter of consolation.","Scope and Contents On the death of W. W. Worthington, brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law, Samuel T. Brown.","Unsigned draft. Written to his overseer with whom he has quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","Agreement for the payment of a debt.","Drafts of a letter to Mark Andrews. 2 items. Concerning the cutting of trees on the property of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder 13:60.","Samuel T. Brown is her brother.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a bridge.","Receipt for postal expenses, April-June, 1849, signed H. Stevens.","Scope and Contents On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased by Samuel T. Brown.","Scope and Contents The sale of a female slave \"with her Brood.\" Samuel T. Brown is Edward Robinson's brother-in-law.","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820; traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican (now Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief illness. The first two letters in Box 14 date from the period of his attendance at New London Academy; then follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination before the faculty, and received the highest mark given at the College, in each of the three years he spent at the College. His report sheets show the requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and contain a resolution passed by the trustees which condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in town. Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in this period is interesting for the comments it contains on the Missouri question and other matters then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his collegiate period may be compared with his statements on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of the House of Delegates. After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions. Upon his return he took up the study of law with Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\" \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the trip West which reveal his first impressions of the Clarksburg area. At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing some of his published writings, speeches, and newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary.\"","Scope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.","Scope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University.\"","Scope and Contents \"My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent...\" Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) \"If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class.\" (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.","Scope and Contents \"Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\" Concerning Lynchburg.","Scope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.","John Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Scope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.","John Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.","A Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","The content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.","\"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed: \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple of letters, continued July 8, 1831, Petersburg. The first section consists of musings and youthful recollections; the second is a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Letter from Alexander M. Jackson, at New London, to John Thompson Brown, regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Notes made at Judge Taylor's Law School.","License to practice law in the superior and inferior courts of this Commonwealth (Virginia).","Musings on friendship and the wise behavior of a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","44 pages. Musings written on a trip through Virginia: thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter were to be incorporated into an Independence Day address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Scope and Contents Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people have no money and are wretchedly poor and lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets are included in a bound scrap book, with endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of court, occurring in various parts of the Union, in which the punishment inflicted, has been made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","Report of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia","Speech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\" signed John Thompson Brown\".","\"The following copy of a Petition to the Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the request of a number of our Citizens.\"","32 pages. \"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of the Commonwealth, to the stock of the Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time. Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then submitted the following Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President). Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the following by way of substitute for the above...\"","Correspondence while Brown established himself in Clarksburg, and while representing Harrison County in the General Assembly. The material in this box covers the period 1825 to 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the Clarksburg Enquirer, contained in the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr. Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825). In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This box also contains various printed and manuscript material touching upon his career in the General Assembly. By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and planned to buy into a partnership in a store to advance his financial position. In a letter of March 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses success spoken of and the probability of Clay's being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs, which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation at the bar and a practice that supports me very decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\" over the signature Alexander. (See bound scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00 to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe, a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He reviews what he considers to be the most important problems of the day, and discusses (1) the invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the calling of a Constitutional Convention for the state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the uncontrolled banking system.","Scope and Contents His election to the General Assembly; hope of election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in the debates of the House and do not expect to do so...\"","The note is \"in regard to the question whether Clinton or Calhoun should run as Vice-President on the Jackson ticket\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other, more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of state.\"","Full title: \"Report of a Committee Appointed To Enquire Into The Nature And Extent Of The Evils Arising From The Present Unsettled State Of Land Titles On The Western Waters Of Virginia, And To Devise A Remedy Therefor, With Leave To Report A Bill Or Otherwise\" 6 pages. 2 copies.","3 copies.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Petition to the General Assembly for a divorce.","Autographed document.","Autographed document.","\"Resolving that members of the House of Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the cause of this Society before the General Assembly of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered the most able one that had been delivered in the House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are pleased to express so deep an interest, is I believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a copy...\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Deptartment F 247 H3B73. The second copy is located in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, under the same call number as above. 17 pages. A report to his constituents on such matters as (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg, (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court, (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the committee on this subject, which he chaired, and the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court bills.","Scope and Contents \"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I could desire and shall support myself hereafter without any further drafts on your goodness...\"","Scope and Contents Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he discusses his prospects for Congress and of his plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Order appointing John Thompson Brown Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, Virginia Militia.","5 items. Autographed document.","Notes are initialed \"J. T. B.'s\".","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal Springs, as contrasted with those of his constituency.","Scope and Contents In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's commission to his father. During the year he borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father has agreed to advance enough capital for him to become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the General Assembly, he writes that he will be a candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed last session authorizing the county court to levy a tax for repairing roads and bridges.\" On March 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he predicts that the basis of votes for whites will be surrendered in the formation of the new State constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall among the rest...\"","Correspondence from after his marriage to Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg (May 1830), and his move to that city, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1831. Also includes over one hundred toasts given at various occasions. The change which was to occur in the life and fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg circa December 1829, in which there is a discussion of \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (March 18, 1830) in a letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next letter in the collection (May 9, 1830), in draft, contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which was attended by no members of his immediate family. Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (July 22, 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the intention of resettling there and sending for his wife (May 2, 1831). During a four week visit to Harrison County, he finds his political position has declined (June 7, 1831), so he returns to Petersburg, and is invited to make the Independence Day address for the town (June 8, 1831). As a result of this address (and the good influence of his father-in-law) he is nominated to represent the town in the House of Delegates, and is elected without opposition (September 26, 1831). He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg Office of the Bank of Virginia (December 29, 1831), and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which is being established in Richmond (October 20, 1831). Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew outlining his philosophy of life and advising the young man on his future (October 3, 1831). A report of the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described in a letter of September 26, 1831. At the end of this box are collected more than a hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was cut down in the bud and You, my sweetest Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others believed I could certainly be elected to Congress next Spring...I wish to appear at P[etersburg]in a manner which would probably be expected and to avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution. Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if you can spare this additional sum you may hand it over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected and I cannot say that there was any other allay to my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my near relatives were present.\"","Scope and Contents On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr. Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going to N. York to the races. They came with us thus far...\" There is much discussion about where they will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week, were introduced to the President, etc., heard some interesting debates and saw all the great men of the nation...My situation is in all respects agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with much advice.","Scope and Contents After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I have nothing to add on the subject of my future arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you seemed to approve when we were together.\" He writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to them his town house \"furnished with servants\u0026amp;quot;; in another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500 and said that I should always have as much as I wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and account of his own situation.","Scope and Contents Letters from Harrison County report that \"the District needs me badly...but it is too late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined public life--for I would not believe you have abondoned it altogether.\"","Scope and Contents Autographed draft. Advice given to a young man summarizing John Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","Scope and Contents On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown, Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","Autographed drafts. The first important public speech of John Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears to have established his reputation, and which influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the wisdom of his brother's decision to visit England.","Physical Location: See 25 April 1822, Box-folder 14:21, These are the continuous drafts of multiple letters. This draft concerns the second part which contains a humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","Scope and Contents On July 25, he states that his brother has left on the packet for Baltimore on the way to Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On September 14 he writes that his wife has given birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau, \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Scope and Contents A letter from Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown to John Thompson Brown encloses the letter from Henry Brown Jr. Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a result of which \"I become more and more an American in feeling and principle...\"","Scope and Contents \"I was elected without opposition after announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton (Nat Turner), \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in some measure of the prejudice against them--but think nevertheless that...southern firewould be none the worse for being somewhat cooled by the northern frost.\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to \"sharpers.\" Endorsed by Windham Robertson.","Scope and Contents Describes the quarters he has for his wife and son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I think no measure can or ought to be taken now for the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia in Petersburg.","Two speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of John Thompson Brown in the items included in this box. A member from Petersburg in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson Brown was placed in a position of leadership and strongly influenced the decisions taken in those critical years. His speech on the abolition of slavery was considered so important that Judge Henry St. George Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia delegation to the national convention of the Republican Party; his resolution of the Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the question of President Jackson's moves against the United States Bank was of particular concern to him (9 April 1833). Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his substitute motion on the question is included in this box, as well as his speech on The State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina, delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet form. John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S. Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified by years or experience (December 1832). An interesting report of his meeting with President Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson Brown to his wife (23 May 1832). Also included in this box are letters from John Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer (7 February, 3 March 1833). Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are included at the end of this box. 81 items.","Scope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.","Scope and Contents \"My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.","James Murray Mason (1798-1871).","Scope and Contents \"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","Scope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.","Scope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of engrossing interest...South Carolina is unquestionably wrong and as long as she remains in the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.","2 items. Autographed draft.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.","Scope and Contents \"I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech...\"","4 pages. Doc. No. 14. Report of the Committee on Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. Mr. Marshall's Substitute to the Report... Doc. No. 16. Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina, the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the communication of the governor of this Commonwealth on the same subject.\"","Delivered January 5, 1833. Richmond: Thomas W. White, printer. 1833. 42 pages. 3 copies. After stating his opposition to protective tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent of the Constitution, rather than a violation of its literal principles.\" He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the United States on his general policy but disputes the Proclamation of the President on other grounds, basing his argument on The Law of Nationsby E. de Vattel. As to the action of South Carolina, he contends that there is no possibility of nullification under the Constitution, but that the redress of the wrong done in the tariff act must come by recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\" acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an amendment to the Constitution.","\"Substitute Submitted By Mr. Brown, Petersburg, For the Amended Report of the Committee on Federal Relations\"","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his resolutions.","Scope and Contents \"I was anxious myself that Virginia should maintain an impartial and just attitude toward both S. Carolina and the President, but far the greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I thought there was error on both sides...\" He remarks that Edward [Steptoe]has been successful in getting his appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr. Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\u0026amp;quot; but \"without...your letter...the application could scarcely have been successful.\"","2 copies. Printed manuscript.","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point; report of the enforcing bill in the President's proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","Scope and Contents In July he announces the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","The two items are signed Julian. \"On seeing Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by John Thompson Brown about this period.","Written by John Thompson Brown, Petersburg.","Letters written by John Thompson Brown during portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions of the General Assembly. The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the legislative battle fought and lost against the Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown believed would have disastrous effects on the future of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy the rough and tumble of party politics then developing. Also of interest are the draft of a speech delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates (January 1835). 44 items.","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","Scope and Contents His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in the Assembly; family news.","Scope and Contents \"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end of February and beginning of March he is kept in bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation, mentioning the message President Jackson sent to Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which he will bring with him.\"","Scope and Contents Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's brother, to start his study of law with him.","John J. Allen (1797-1871)","Scope and Contents Sold bank shares to help his brother go into business for himself; gives advice on racing horses.","Draft of a speech delivered in Petersburg on the occasion of the death of Lafayette. 43 pages. Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military Academy. John Thompson Brown is the uncle of Edward J. Steptoe.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the death of a sister and congratulations on the birth of a son.","Scope and Contents His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","Scope and Contents \"No subject arouses anybody except the senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources at the service of his brother in his new business venture.","3 letters, 1 draft. On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter, which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a fight in the halls of the General Assembly between himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better received than anything I have ever made.\"","A speech \"...upon the Election of a Senator in Congress: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia\". 28 pages. Printed book. Points out the importance of this election for \"future political events and party combinations in the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr. Leigh.","Written by John Thompson Brown. 70 pages. Autographed Manuscript. Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like, prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates. 116 pages.","Letters from February 1835, until his death in November 1836; manuscripts of four articles written to oppose the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President. The closing sessions of the State Legislature of 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a street fight with an opponent in which he receives a black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins the election (April 1835). Before the next session of the legislature, John Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more material on the question of slavery (August 1835), and prepared three long drafts written in opposition to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are included at the end of the 1835 section. Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store. The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of his brother, and his activity in settling his brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the letters included in this box. At the end of July he takes his family to his father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which keeps him there until his death on 26 November 1836. 104 items.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson Brown II, and tells his brother that he had ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the store that he had opened.","Scope and Contents Political activity in Petersburg.","Scope and Contents \"The Jackson party has brought out the most popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite likely he will beat me.\"","Scope and Contents On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\" There is also a report of a street fight between John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his law studies, and describes a visit by his old friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit him.","Scope and Contents Drafts on the subject of the northern resolutions on slavery, particularly those recently passed in Portland and Boston. 3 items.","4 items. Autographed draft.","Scope and Contents Family discussion, especially concerned with the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown as an honorary member of the Jefferson Society.","The content is on the stand of Mr. Van Buren on emancipation. 28 numbered columns. Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","Notes on this topic.","Notes on this topic. Also includes an additional 2 page insertion.","Notes on this topic. The series of drafts is in opposition to Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President of the United States. 48 pages.","Good reports of the new business venture of his brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York; political prospects now look bright, but \"the state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Commission as Captain in the Cavalry of the Virginia Militia. Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","Signed Captain John Thompson Brown.","Scope and Contents John Thompson Brown writes five letters from Hobson's Inn, Homes, Otter Hills, and Lynchburg. On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown, Jr.","Scope and Contents Taking inventory at the store of his late brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Scope and Contents Reports on the stocktaking in the store of Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the last letter from John Thompson Brown to his father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes arrangements for his own family to join him. (This is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her uncle regarding the recent death of her father, Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John Thompson Brown, 29 years\" envelope marked, \"For sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave, Nov. 13th, 1845, Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington,\" with clover leaves inside.","Signed Robert B. Bolling, Chairman. A resolution in memory of John Thompson Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John Thompson Brown, by William A. Dod.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her father-in-law. Mrs. Mary E. Brown is the widow of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of consolation.","In service as Executors of John Thompson Brown.","Drafts.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the region around Bedford, Virginia. 40 pages.","16 pages. Draft.","5 pages. Autographed draft. Incomplete.","The bounties offered for Indian scalps in Bedford between 1755 and 1758.","11 items. Autographed document.","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction details.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker Coleman. There are also nineteenth century engravings. Boxes 20 - 24.","Correspondence, commissions, receipts, etc., of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, killed in action on May 6, 1864; his drafts of speeches in defense of slavery. This box contains the papers from the period after the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months before the death of his father. One letter (November 20, 1844) lists the courses studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (May 4, 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to submit. John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by the members of his company (December 1, 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and belt (April 23, 1861) mark the beginning of action, and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a transfer to a more active field of war and an extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The box concludes with items which appear to have been on the person of Colonel John Thompson Brown II, when he was killed in action on 6 May 1864. 83 items.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11 years old, and Peronneau, 13 years old.","58 pages. Draft.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown, October 19, 1859, and the treatment of him as a martyr in the North. 5 pages. Autographed draft.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when great questions of State equality are to be settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement requires powder and ball...\"","2 copies.","3 items.","Report on ammunition on hand.","3 items.","2 items. Court Martial action taken for refusal to do guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Colonel John Thompson Brown II.","4 items.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the Division of General D. H. Hills, so that he might be more actively engaged.","3 items.","Draft of a suggestion for winter furloughs in order to extend the length of service in the fighting season.","Published by West and Johnson, Richmond.","4 items.","13 items.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two over John Thompson Brown's command.","Signed by W. H. Taylor and Brig. General William Nelson Pendleton. 4 items.","Scope and Contents 4 items.","4 items. Autographed document signed.","Receipt for whitewashing two rooms.","Request the return of his report on the battle of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to General Stuart.","4 items.","Papers which appear to have been on John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Papers which appear to have been on the person of John Thompson Brown II when he was killed in action.","Gift list and cover addressed to Jackson's Reserve Artillery, near Bowling Green, Caroline County","Book containing several commissions, leather bound.","2 copies. Printed material.","5 items. Newspaper clipping.","Autograph poem and newspaper text; \"Lines written on seeing 'Rifle' the war-horse of Col. J. T. B....\" from the Richmond Dispatch.","The marker titled \"Thompson Brown\" has blue ribbons attached.","The papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She expresses concern that her son is more interested in affairs other than his studies (March 1, 1849). His school career is traced briefly through his years at the University of Virginia (June 28, 1851). The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau Brown and his fiancee, Frances Bland Coalter, 1858, lead into the family correspondence which completes this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker Papers.) From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern farmer to re-establish himself after the war. 108 items.","Scope and Contents Letters written to Samuel T. Brown while he was in Charleston, South Carolina and New London, Virginia. The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is attending school in South Carolina. He was devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of college life and not enough to his studies.","Scope and Contents Congratulating him on his success at Charleston College; a proposed biography of John Thompson Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the University of Virginia.","Receipt for 65 pounds of ice to Henry Peronneau Brown from Long and Stevens, Petersburg.","Scope and Contents 5 letters. Affectionate letters to her fiance.","Scope and Contents In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H. Coalter.","Scope and Contents \"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home is so lovely and you are so happy...for its mountain scenery.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning the failing health of their mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking.","Scope and Contents Cover lacking.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","Letter to his sister, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents Eight calling cards in a cover addressed to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is heading him to the madhouse.","Scope and Contents She writes of the ladies making vests and shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees have landed at Hampton; the first of the war casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have just been received which we are to turn our attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing all about. Comments on \"the tennessee company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","Scope and Contents The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this antiquated spot\u0026amp;quot; because her husband was drilling some new troops and sent for her to join him.","From Stanley, the family home, to Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in Richmond.","\"...adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of exchanged prisoners...\"","Scope and Contents Written while Henry was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to his sister.","Receipt for wheat delivered. Signed A. Wynne and L. Hatchet.","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian Church at Tappahannock.","A bill brought in Chancery Court by John R. Bryan against H. B. Tomlin, executor of St. George Tucker Coalter. The settlement of the John Randolph estate which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew; recommends that he stop drinking.","Receipt for wages.","2 items. Printed document signed.","Accounts with stores. 3 items. Printed document signed.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Scope and Contents Letters written to his sister as he made a start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before as I am now...I have not spent during the whole year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home Remedies.\"","2 items.","4 items. Printed document signed.","Writes of Cassie Tucker, wife of John Thompson Brown III. \"You have introduced into your home a very sunbeam.\"","The letter is addressed to \"Fanny\", his sister-in-law, and concerns the death of John Coalter II.","Statement concerning the trust for Mrs. Fanny B. Brown (Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown).","2 items. Autographed document.","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter. There are 6 report cards from The University School, Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a pamphlet of Resolutions Passed in 1894, 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School Act. Many of the letters in the collection are from Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as photographs of some members of the family and pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Captain Henry Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown III. At the end of the box is a notebook containing sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for her son John Thompson Brown III. 80 items. (John Thompson Brown III, son of Henry Peronneau Brown, who married Cassie Tucker, thus reuniting the family with the Tucker line.)","To her son (John Thompson Brown III) urging him to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Report cards from University School, some countersigned by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown. 6 items. Printed document signed. Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown III, when the reports were sent home.","Paper written on Martin Luther.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered through the classical writers.\"","Scope and Contents The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman; the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown.","Scope and Contents During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely restored.\" Beverly Tucker and Braxton Bryan are mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy at Jamestown.","The letters are addressed to \"Thompson\".","Two photographs, one of John Thompson Brown IV and his sister, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, with a servant, Aunt Jane; the other of the house, Ivy Cliff, originally called Otter Hill. Photostat.","Scope and Contents \"...make haste and get well enough to come home where you are much missed.\"","45 items. Printed document signed.","Includes a separate sermon. Autographed draft signed. \"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it carefully and may God have mercy on his soul. Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September 1894.)","Material related to the Brown and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A. Adams are placed at the beginning of the box. Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska, relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member of the family, Captain David Tucker Brown, is represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from France when he was serving as a member of the American Commission to negotiate peace. Seventeen undated items concerning unidentified persons are grouped at the end of the box. 85 items.","15 items.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention, 1901-2.\"","Editorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.","Candidacy for the position of Lieutenant Governor.","Periodical. Pages 125-139. Printed manuscript.","5 items. Newsclippings regarding William B. Allison, Theodore Roosevelt, and \"The Political Situation, 1876-1908\".","Newsclippings concerning Judge John Randolph Tucker taken from the Nome Daily Nugget, Nome Democrat and Nome Industrial Worker.","Concerning the Farmer's Winter Institute in Agriculture, 1913-1914, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From \"The World\", New York.","Scope and Contents Covers lacking. With the \"American Commission to Negotiate Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson Brown IV, of Wilmington.","A proclamation by Westmoreland Davis, Governor. Also Includes a song sheet of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. 2 items.","27 items.","Date unknown.","Revolutionary War service claim, draft on the Bank of Virginia, and article surviving soldier's payments. 3 items. Printed document signed.","\"From private who served you on the memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\"","2 items. Printed document signed.","Invitation from the Royal Geographical Society.","2 items. Autographed draft.","An alphabetical list of flowers with the characteristics of each expressed symbolically.","Newspaper clippings of pictures from engravings, plus some advertisements and copies of publications. Circa 400 items.","20 columns of news clippings from \"Central Presbyterian.\"","3 poems, news clippings and a clipping with sheet music.","Illustrated London News, December 18, 1866.","Christmas supplement from the Illustrated London News, December 18, 1869.","6 clippings of engravings about archaeology.","22 clippings of engravings about farming and husbandry.","8 clippings of engravings of churches destroyed in the Chicago fire.","7 clippings of Civil War engravings.","3 clippings of engravings of zoological topics.","2 clippings of engravings about the Crimea when occupied by Russian.","Supplement to Harper's Monthly.","Weekly cartoons appearing in Harper's Monthly.","14 pages from the April 1872 issue of Hearth and Home.","Clipping of Masthead of Harper's Monthly with an engraving of Clothes and Styles. November 29, 1872.","Cover page of the New York Fireside Companion. November 18, 1873.","Five sections of the November 1873 edition of Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly.","October 18, 1874 pamphlet \"Pastoral Letter\" written by T.D. Witherspoon.","Four clippings of engravings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Family Almanac.","Full June 16, 1877 issue of Illustrated Christian Weekly.","Scope and Contents 1883 Calendar sheet for Hiram Sibley \u0026amp; Co., Seedsman, in color.","Large foldout of the family tree of Queen Victoria from the Illustrated London News, \"Jubilee edition.\"","January 1896 price list for U.S. Stamps by N.E. Carter of Delavan, Wisconsin.","Three color illustrations with a poem.","\"The Golden Horseshoe\" pamphlet with illustrations.","Six book sale advertisements by different publishers.","A completed form for \"self-measurement\" for suits by the company, Noah Walker and Co.","Five advertising cards.","Five advertisements for carriages, ranges, safes, etc.","Five sheets of medical advertisements.","Instructions for playing the Monneuse Turkish Tubephone.","38 page notebook with pasted clippings of engravings of different subjects.","Typed transcriptions prepared by Yolande (Lonnie) Dobbs, of material pertaining to John Thompson Brown in boxes 7 to 19. She chose material to transcribe that would \"provide a fuller picture of Brown, his family and his political career at a time in American and Virginian history when a number of significant events were taking place. The issues of slavery, states rights, tariffs, elections of Senators, the Bank of the United States, presidential elections and the changing political parties were issues of vital importance to John Thompson Brown.\" Transcribed from 1998-2005. CD of transcriptions is available.","Introduction gives genealogical information of the Brown Family, beginning with Henry Brown who died in 1757 in New Jersey. Includes transcriptions of legal transactions, letters and other documents (not from this collection) which show the procession of the Brown Family from New Jersey to parts of Virginia.","Inventory of Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I. Typed and carbon transcriptions of selections of letters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Also, handwritten transcriptions that are not typed. Includes notes on possible subject arrangement of the transcriptions. The following folders may loosely follow this order. Includes processing notes, genealogical information and a partial inventory. The project appears to be incomplete. The author of these transcriptions may be Lonny Dobbs.","Two typed carbon inventories of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker Papers I, entitled \"...containing papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Harrison County and Petersburg.\"","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters from 1814 to 1822.","One typed transcript, one carbon transcript and the handwritten transcriptions of letters for 1831.","One typed transcript and one carbon transcript of letters from 1818 to 1824.  Noted as \"Letters of J.T. Brown.\"","One typed transcript, two carbon transcripts and the handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings from J.T. Brown's scrapbook. All from Box 14, Folder 30.","Handwritten transcripts of letters dated from 1831-1835. No typed transcripts included."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAll audiovisual material from this collection has been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["All audiovisual material from this collection has been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae"],"names_coll_ssim":["College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","Brown family","Coalter family","Coulter family","Tucker","Randolph, John, 1773-1833","Tucker, John Randolph, 1823-1897","Wythe, George, 1726-1806"],"famname_ssim":["Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","Coalter family","Brown family","Coulter family","Tucker"],"persname_ssim":["Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855","Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894","Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942","Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, b. 1805","Bryan, John Randolph, 1806-1887","Coalter, John, 1769-1838","Coalter, Judith H. 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(William Cabell), 1793-1868","Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848","Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter, 1767-post 1833","Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827","Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896","Randolph, John, 1773-1833","Tucker, John Randolph, 1823-1897","Wythe, George, 1726-1806"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":1146,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:46:13.986Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8402"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8401","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791/1920","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8401#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8401#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings.","Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown (1) (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown (2) (1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. (3) (1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown (3) (1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II (4) (1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown (4) (1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter (1) (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\u0026quot; plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter (2) (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter (2) (1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker (1) (1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker (2) (1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker (3) married Lucy (?).The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker (3) married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker (3) (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker (2) (1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (2) (1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People\n \nWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Captain David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris, France.","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00052.frame","There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929.3,433 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart","Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","Also includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.","Box: 1-2. Letters are arranged alphabetically by author.","Box-folder 1:1-18","Letters from Margaret W. Barnes, Ellwood, to Fanny Bland Coalter Brown, one dated May 30, 1861 and another dated January 13, 1880, and nineteen letters with no date. Also, one, undated to Thompson Brown.","The author may be Bunny Braxton.","The letter may be to Fanny.","Letter from an unknown writer \"to his mother\".","Manuscript","Twenty-one letters of which four letters have no date.","J. Thompson Brown, Charlottesville and \"Brierfield,\" Bedford County, Virginia, to his mother, 1880-1881, his wife, 1896, and a signed picture of a home [Brierfield?].","Typewritten Letter Signed.","Eight letters of which the letter of March 10, 1859 mentions fire at the College of William and Mary.","Two letters from Lucy C. Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown, 19 February [1858?]and 21 April [?].","Two letters from William Beasley, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"Mrs. Brown,\" 5 October 1878 and 29 September 1881.","Letter from Janet Begg, Bedford Springs, to Cassie Tucker Brown.","Letter from Fanny Bland, Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland, to Mrs. Brown.","Box-folder 2:1-3","Letter from F. T. Carmichael to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Susan Carrington to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Catty [?], \"Otter,\" to Cousin Fanny, completely dated as September 8.","Six letters from L. W. and Lelia B. Cocke to Fannie.","Letter from G. P. Coleman, Richmond, Virginia, to J. Thompson Brown.","The undated letter is from July 7.","Manuscript.","Judy H. Tomlin later married St. George Tucker Coalter becoming Judith Harrison Tomlin Coalter.","Letter from Betty B. Dallam, Baltimore, Maryland, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Sallie A. Donnan, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"My dear friend.\"","Box-folder 2:5-6","Letters signed from \"Aunt Lockie\".","Letter is dated as November 12.","Three letters from \"Gay\"[?], near Richmond, Kentucky, to \"Ma\" and Aunt Fannie.","Two letters from G. B. Grinnan, Brampton, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Two letters from Jenny [?], \"Stanley,\" to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Betty C. Lacy, Eliwood, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Willie C. Lancaster to \"Cassie.\"","Letter from \"Lizzie,\" to \"Aunt Fannie.\"","Letter from Lizzie Lee, \"Bremo,\" to Fanny, dated only as June 15.","Eight letters from \"Aunt Mary,\" University of Virginia, to Thompson Brown.","Letter from Josie McIlwaine, Petersburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from J. L. Morton, Farmville, to Fannie B. Coalter, August 2, 1856.","Letter from Charlie Page, Cary's Brook, to \"Cousin Fanny,\" July 27, 1876.","Typewritten letter from A.M. Randolph, Casanova P.O., Virginia, to F. Saunders.","Letter from Maria Rind to John Coalter.","Letter from Susan N. Roberts, Wady, Virginia, to J. T. Brown.","Letter from F. B. R. [Frances B. Robinson?] to Alice Browne. Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson and Alice Brown were sisters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836).","Letter from John G. Shepperson to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Five letters from \"Susie,\" to \"Dear Aunt F.\", Virginia, and Uncle.","Letter from W. W. Teates, Evington, Virginia, to John Thompson Brown.","Five letters from members of the Tucker family including JR., Dallas, D. H., and Bev to cousins and Cassie.","Letter from Mattie Morton Womack, \"Buffaloe,\" to Fannie.","Letter from Fannie Braxton Young, West Brook, to Fannie.","Letters are mostly unidentified, including Henrietta to Fannie Bland Coalter (c/o Rev. Moses Hoge, Richmond).","Includes notes, bills, receipts, school reports, etc.","Box-folder: 3:1 Photographs of Jefferson Davis and Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Box-folder: 3:2-3","From the American News Co.","Physical Location: Located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: E 384.3 B87. Speech concerns the state of relations between US and South Carolina.","Broadside announces to citizens of Harrison he will not be a candidate for the legislature. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B72 RBVA","The leaflet is addressed to \"Fellow Citizens,\" signed by J. T. Brown, and includes a copy of legislative act. Four page leaflet. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B71 RBVA","Booklet is signed by John Thompson Brown. 20 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B74 RBVA","Booklet is signed by Jno. Tho. Brown. Includes report of committee and copy of bill. 18 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B73 RBVA","Box-folder: 3:4-9","191 items.","26 items.","8 items.","13 items.","19 items.","16 items.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","Braxton family","Coalter family","Morton family","Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894","Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942","Coalter, John, 1769-1838","Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792","Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791/1920"],"collection_ssim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), 1791/1920"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 B855","/repositories/2/resources/8401"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B855","/repositories/2/resources/8401"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","Braxton family","Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894","Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942","Coalter family","Coalter, John, 1769-1838","Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792","Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839","Morton family"],"creator_ssim":["Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","Braxton family","Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894","Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942","Coalter family","Coalter, John, 1769-1838","Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792","Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839","Morton family"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894","Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942","Coalter, John, 1769-1838","Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792","Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","Braxton family","Coalter family","Morton family"],"creators_ssim":["Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894","Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942","Coalter, John, 1769-1838","Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792","Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839","Special Collections Research Center","Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family","Braxton family","Coalter family","Morton family"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift: 941 items, 11/15/1950."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--Religious History--Christianity","United States--Slavery","Women--Virginia--Social life and customs","Correspondence","Financial records"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--Religious History--Christianity","United States--Slavery","Women--Virginia--Social life and customs","Correspondence","Financial records"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["941 items"],"extent_ssm":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Financial records"],"date_range_isim":[1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNote: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown (1) (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown (2) (1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany papers of Henry Brown, Jr. (3) (1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown (3) (1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. John Thompson Brown II (4) (1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Peronneau Brown (4) (1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCoalter Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter (1) (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\u0026amp;quot; plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker Coalter (2) (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter (2) (1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker (1) (1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry St. George Tucker (2) (1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tucker (3) married Lucy (?).The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. David Hunter Tucker (3) married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker (3) (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnn Frances Bland Tucker (2) (1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Beverley Tucker (2) (1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther People\n \nWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris, France. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown (1) (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown (2) (1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. (3) (1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown (3) (1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II (4) (1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown (4) (1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter (1) (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\u0026quot; plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter (2) (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter (2) (1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker (1) (1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker (2) (1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker (3) married Lucy (?).The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker (3) married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker (3) (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker (2) (1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (2) (1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People\n \nWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Captain David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris, France."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00052.frame\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00052.frame"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929.3,433 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929.3,433 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eBox: 1-2. Letters are arranged alphabetically by author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder 1:1-18\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Margaret W. Barnes, Ellwood, to Fanny Bland Coalter Brown, one dated May 30, 1861 and another dated January 13, 1880, and nineteen letters with no date. Also, one, undated to Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe author may be Bunny Braxton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter may be to Fanny.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from an unknown writer \"to his mother\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty-one letters of which four letters have no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Thompson Brown, Charlottesville and \"Brierfield,\" Bedford County, Virginia, to his mother, 1880-1881, his wife, 1896, and a signed picture of a home [Brierfield?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten Letter Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEight letters of which the letter of March 10, 1859 mentions fire at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from Lucy C. Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown, 19 February [1858?]and 21 April [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from William Beasley, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"Mrs. Brown,\" 5 October 1878 and 29 September 1881.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Janet Begg, Bedford Springs, to Cassie Tucker Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Fanny Bland, Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland, to Mrs. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder 2:1-3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. T. Carmichael to Fanny Coalter Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Susan Carrington to Fanny Coalter Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Catty [?], \"Otter,\" to Cousin Fanny, completely dated as September 8.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSix letters from L. W. and Lelia B. Cocke to Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from G. P. Coleman, Richmond, Virginia, to J. Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe undated letter is from July 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudy H. Tomlin later married St. George Tucker Coalter becoming Judith Harrison Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Betty B. Dallam, Baltimore, Maryland, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Sallie A. Donnan, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"My dear friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder 2:5-6\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed from \"Aunt Lockie\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is dated as November 12.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters from \"Gay\"[?], near Richmond, Kentucky, to \"Ma\" and Aunt Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from G. B. Grinnan, Brampton, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from Jenny [?], \"Stanley,\" to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Betty C. Lacy, Eliwood, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Willie C. Lancaster to \"Cassie.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from \"Lizzie,\" to \"Aunt Fannie.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Lizzie Lee, \"Bremo,\" to Fanny, dated only as June 15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEight letters from \"Aunt Mary,\" University of Virginia, to Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Josie McIlwaine, Petersburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from J. L. Morton, Farmville, to Fannie B. Coalter, August 2, 1856.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charlie Page, Cary's Brook, to \"Cousin Fanny,\" July 27, 1876.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten letter from A.M. Randolph, Casanova P.O., Virginia, to F. Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Maria Rind to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Susan N. Roberts, Wady, Virginia, to J. T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. B. R. [Frances B. Robinson?] to Alice Browne. Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson and Alice Brown were sisters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John G. Shepperson to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive letters from \"Susie,\" to \"Dear Aunt F.\", Virginia, and Uncle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. W. Teates, Evington, Virginia, to John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive letters from members of the Tucker family including JR., Dallas, D. H., and Bev to cousins and Cassie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Mattie Morton Womack, \"Buffaloe,\" to Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Fannie Braxton Young, West Brook, to Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are mostly unidentified, including Henrietta to Fannie Bland Coalter (c/o Rev. Moses Hoge, Richmond).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes, bills, receipts, school reports, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 3:1 Photographs of Jefferson Davis and Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 3:2-3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the American News Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: E 384.3 B87. Speech concerns the state of relations between US and South Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside announces to citizens of Harrison he will not be a candidate for the legislature. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B72 RBVA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe leaflet is addressed to \"Fellow Citizens,\" signed by J. T. Brown, and includes a copy of legislative act. Four page leaflet. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B71 RBVA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet is signed by John Thompson Brown. 20 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B74 RBVA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet is signed by Jno. Tho. Brown. Includes report of committee and copy of bill. 18 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B73 RBVA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 3:4-9\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e191 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","Also includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.","Box: 1-2. Letters are arranged alphabetically by author.","Box-folder 1:1-18","Letters from Margaret W. Barnes, Ellwood, to Fanny Bland Coalter Brown, one dated May 30, 1861 and another dated January 13, 1880, and nineteen letters with no date. Also, one, undated to Thompson Brown.","The author may be Bunny Braxton.","The letter may be to Fanny.","Letter from an unknown writer \"to his mother\".","Manuscript","Twenty-one letters of which four letters have no date.","J. Thompson Brown, Charlottesville and \"Brierfield,\" Bedford County, Virginia, to his mother, 1880-1881, his wife, 1896, and a signed picture of a home [Brierfield?].","Typewritten Letter Signed.","Eight letters of which the letter of March 10, 1859 mentions fire at the College of William and Mary.","Two letters from Lucy C. Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown, 19 February [1858?]and 21 April [?].","Two letters from William Beasley, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"Mrs. Brown,\" 5 October 1878 and 29 September 1881.","Letter from Janet Begg, Bedford Springs, to Cassie Tucker Brown.","Letter from Fanny Bland, Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland, to Mrs. Brown.","Box-folder 2:1-3","Letter from F. T. Carmichael to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Susan Carrington to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Catty [?], \"Otter,\" to Cousin Fanny, completely dated as September 8.","Six letters from L. W. and Lelia B. Cocke to Fannie.","Letter from G. P. Coleman, Richmond, Virginia, to J. Thompson Brown.","The undated letter is from July 7.","Manuscript.","Judy H. Tomlin later married St. George Tucker Coalter becoming Judith Harrison Tomlin Coalter.","Letter from Betty B. Dallam, Baltimore, Maryland, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Sallie A. Donnan, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"My dear friend.\"","Box-folder 2:5-6","Letters signed from \"Aunt Lockie\".","Letter is dated as November 12.","Three letters from \"Gay\"[?], near Richmond, Kentucky, to \"Ma\" and Aunt Fannie.","Two letters from G. B. Grinnan, Brampton, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Two letters from Jenny [?], \"Stanley,\" to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Betty C. Lacy, Eliwood, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Willie C. Lancaster to \"Cassie.\"","Letter from \"Lizzie,\" to \"Aunt Fannie.\"","Letter from Lizzie Lee, \"Bremo,\" to Fanny, dated only as June 15.","Eight letters from \"Aunt Mary,\" University of Virginia, to Thompson Brown.","Letter from Josie McIlwaine, Petersburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from J. L. Morton, Farmville, to Fannie B. Coalter, August 2, 1856.","Letter from Charlie Page, Cary's Brook, to \"Cousin Fanny,\" July 27, 1876.","Typewritten letter from A.M. Randolph, Casanova P.O., Virginia, to F. Saunders.","Letter from Maria Rind to John Coalter.","Letter from Susan N. Roberts, Wady, Virginia, to J. T. Brown.","Letter from F. B. R. [Frances B. Robinson?] to Alice Browne. Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson and Alice Brown were sisters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836).","Letter from John G. Shepperson to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Five letters from \"Susie,\" to \"Dear Aunt F.\", Virginia, and Uncle.","Letter from W. W. Teates, Evington, Virginia, to John Thompson Brown.","Five letters from members of the Tucker family including JR., Dallas, D. H., and Bev to cousins and Cassie.","Letter from Mattie Morton Womack, \"Buffaloe,\" to Fannie.","Letter from Fannie Braxton Young, West Brook, to Fannie.","Letters are mostly unidentified, including Henrietta to Fannie Bland Coalter (c/o Rev. Moses Hoge, Richmond).","Includes notes, bills, receipts, school reports, etc.","Box-folder: 3:1 Photographs of Jefferson Davis and Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Box-folder: 3:2-3","From the American News Co.","Physical Location: Located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: E 384.3 B87. Speech concerns the state of relations between US and South Carolina.","Broadside announces to citizens of Harrison he will not be a candidate for the legislature. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B72 RBVA","The leaflet is addressed to \"Fellow Citizens,\" signed by J. T. Brown, and includes a copy of legislative act. Four page leaflet. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B71 RBVA","Booklet is signed by John Thompson Brown. 20 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B74 RBVA","Booklet is signed by Jno. Tho. Brown. Includes report of committee and copy of bill. 18 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings.","Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown (1) (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown (2) (1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. (3) (1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown (3) (1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II (4) (1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown (4) (1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter (1) (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\u0026quot; plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter (2) (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter (2) (1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker (1) (1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker (2) (1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker (3) married Lucy (?).The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker (3) married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker (3) (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker (2) (1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (2) (1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People\n \nWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Captain David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris, France.","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00052.frame","There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929.3,433 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart","Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","Also includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.","Box: 1-2. Letters are arranged alphabetically by author.","Box-folder 1:1-18","Letters from Margaret W. Barnes, Ellwood, to Fanny Bland Coalter Brown, one dated May 30, 1861 and another dated January 13, 1880, and nineteen letters with no date. Also, one, undated to Thompson Brown.","The author may be Bunny Braxton.","The letter may be to Fanny.","Letter from an unknown writer \"to his mother\".","Manuscript","Twenty-one letters of which four letters have no date.","J. Thompson Brown, Charlottesville and \"Brierfield,\" Bedford County, Virginia, to his mother, 1880-1881, his wife, 1896, and a signed picture of a home [Brierfield?].","Typewritten Letter Signed.","Eight letters of which the letter of March 10, 1859 mentions fire at the College of William and Mary.","Two letters from Lucy C. Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown, 19 February [1858?]and 21 April [?].","Two letters from William Beasley, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"Mrs. Brown,\" 5 October 1878 and 29 September 1881.","Letter from Janet Begg, Bedford Springs, to Cassie Tucker Brown.","Letter from Fanny Bland, Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland, to Mrs. Brown.","Box-folder 2:1-3","Letter from F. T. Carmichael to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Susan Carrington to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Catty [?], \"Otter,\" to Cousin Fanny, completely dated as September 8.","Six letters from L. W. and Lelia B. Cocke to Fannie.","Letter from G. P. Coleman, Richmond, Virginia, to J. Thompson Brown.","The undated letter is from July 7.","Manuscript.","Judy H. Tomlin later married St. George Tucker Coalter becoming Judith Harrison Tomlin Coalter.","Letter from Betty B. Dallam, Baltimore, Maryland, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Sallie A. Donnan, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"My dear friend.\"","Box-folder 2:5-6","Letters signed from \"Aunt Lockie\".","Letter is dated as November 12.","Three letters from \"Gay\"[?], near Richmond, Kentucky, to \"Ma\" and Aunt Fannie.","Two letters from G. B. Grinnan, Brampton, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Two letters from Jenny [?], \"Stanley,\" to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Betty C. Lacy, Eliwood, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Willie C. Lancaster to \"Cassie.\"","Letter from \"Lizzie,\" to \"Aunt Fannie.\"","Letter from Lizzie Lee, \"Bremo,\" to Fanny, dated only as June 15.","Eight letters from \"Aunt Mary,\" University of Virginia, to Thompson Brown.","Letter from Josie McIlwaine, Petersburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from J. L. Morton, Farmville, to Fannie B. Coalter, August 2, 1856.","Letter from Charlie Page, Cary's Brook, to \"Cousin Fanny,\" July 27, 1876.","Typewritten letter from A.M. Randolph, Casanova P.O., Virginia, to F. Saunders.","Letter from Maria Rind to John Coalter.","Letter from Susan N. Roberts, Wady, Virginia, to J. T. Brown.","Letter from F. B. R. [Frances B. Robinson?] to Alice Browne. Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson and Alice Brown were sisters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836).","Letter from John G. Shepperson to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Five letters from \"Susie,\" to \"Dear Aunt F.\", Virginia, and Uncle.","Letter from W. W. Teates, Evington, Virginia, to John Thompson Brown.","Five letters from members of the Tucker family including JR., Dallas, D. H., and Bev to cousins and Cassie.","Letter from Mattie Morton Womack, \"Buffaloe,\" to Fannie.","Letter from Fannie Braxton Young, West Brook, to Fannie.","Letters are mostly unidentified, including Henrietta to Fannie Bland Coalter (c/o Rev. Moses Hoge, Richmond).","Includes notes, bills, receipts, school reports, etc.","Box-folder: 3:1 Photographs of Jefferson Davis and Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Box-folder: 3:2-3","From the American News Co.","Physical Location: Located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: E 384.3 B87. Speech concerns the state of relations between US and South Carolina.","Broadside announces to citizens of Harrison he will not be a candidate for the legislature. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B72 RBVA","The leaflet is addressed to \"Fellow Citizens,\" signed by J. T. Brown, and includes a copy of legislative act. Four page leaflet. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B71 RBVA","Booklet is signed by John Thompson Brown. 20 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B74 RBVA","Booklet is signed by Jno. Tho. Brown. Includes report of committee and copy of bill. 18 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNote: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown (1) (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown (2) (1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany papers of Henry Brown, Jr. (3) (1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown (3) (1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. John Thompson Brown II (4) (1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Peronneau Brown (4) (1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCoalter Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter (1) (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\u0026amp;quot; plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker Coalter (2) (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter (2) (1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker (1) (1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry St. George Tucker (2) (1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tucker (3) married Lucy (?).The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. David Hunter Tucker (3) married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker (3) (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnn Frances Bland Tucker (2) (1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Beverley Tucker (2) (1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther People\n \nWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris, France. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family.","Brown Family","Henry Brown (1) (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown (2) (1760-1841), later commissioned as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell) County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers present a picture of the successful business man of that day. No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this collection, though many references to letters he had written are to be found. Captain Henry Brown (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown(b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. (3) (1797-1836), are included in this collection, but his personality makes little impression on the reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own. Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown (3) (1802-1836) was born near Bedford County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery, states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period. He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have been an important figure in national politics if he had not suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II (4) (1835-1864), was less than two years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his father's ideas in the next generation when the debate regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6, 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown (4) (1832-1894), was named after a Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's, Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker family with the line. They in turn had five children; John Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown; Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family","John Coalter (1) (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg, serving without pay in return for the legal training he received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\u0026quot; plantation in Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter (2) (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831 and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter (2) (1809-1839), married the strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters, which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters give an interesting and informative picture of life in Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St. George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868. See Brown Family","Tucker Family","St. George Tucker (1) (1752-1827), was born in 1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St. George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795). None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker (2) (1780-1848), served as a professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress, 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children, including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker (3) married Lucy (?).The couple had children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker (3) married Eliz Dallas and had Rev. Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker (3) (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University); and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker (2) (1785-1813), married John Coalter (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (2) (1784-1851), graduated from the College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in 1834.","Other People\n \nWilliam Munford (1775-1825) A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on that important member of the legal profession in the new nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods stores and the household supply stores are included in the collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (circa 1915) Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (circa 1915).","Captain David Tucker Brown (circa 1918), was a member of the 1918 Peace Commission, Paris, France."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00052.frame\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00052.frame"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929.3,433 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875.247 items.Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907.30,000 items.Collection number: Mss. 40 T79Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929.3,433 items.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","2008.238 Tucker-Brown Seven Generations Genealogy Chart"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eBox: 1-2. Letters are arranged alphabetically by author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder 1:1-18\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Margaret W. Barnes, Ellwood, to Fanny Bland Coalter Brown, one dated May 30, 1861 and another dated January 13, 1880, and nineteen letters with no date. Also, one, undated to Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe author may be Bunny Braxton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter may be to Fanny.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from an unknown writer \"to his mother\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty-one letters of which four letters have no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Thompson Brown, Charlottesville and \"Brierfield,\" Bedford County, Virginia, to his mother, 1880-1881, his wife, 1896, and a signed picture of a home [Brierfield?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten Letter Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEight letters of which the letter of March 10, 1859 mentions fire at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from Lucy C. Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown, 19 February [1858?]and 21 April [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from William Beasley, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"Mrs. Brown,\" 5 October 1878 and 29 September 1881.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Janet Begg, Bedford Springs, to Cassie Tucker Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Fanny Bland, Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland, to Mrs. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder 2:1-3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. T. Carmichael to Fanny Coalter Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Susan Carrington to Fanny Coalter Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Catty [?], \"Otter,\" to Cousin Fanny, completely dated as September 8.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSix letters from L. W. and Lelia B. Cocke to Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from G. P. Coleman, Richmond, Virginia, to J. 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Lacy, Eliwood, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Willie C. Lancaster to \"Cassie.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from \"Lizzie,\" to \"Aunt Fannie.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Lizzie Lee, \"Bremo,\" to Fanny, dated only as June 15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEight letters from \"Aunt Mary,\" University of Virginia, to Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Josie McIlwaine, Petersburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from J. L. Morton, Farmville, to Fannie B. Coalter, August 2, 1856.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charlie Page, Cary's Brook, to \"Cousin Fanny,\" July 27, 1876.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten letter from A.M. Randolph, Casanova P.O., Virginia, to F. Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Maria Rind to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Susan N. Roberts, Wady, Virginia, to J. T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from F. B. R. [Frances B. Robinson?] to Alice Browne. Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson and Alice Brown were sisters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John G. Shepperson to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive letters from \"Susie,\" to \"Dear Aunt F.\", Virginia, and Uncle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. W. Teates, Evington, Virginia, to John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive letters from members of the Tucker family including JR., Dallas, D. H., and Bev to cousins and Cassie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Mattie Morton Womack, \"Buffaloe,\" to Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Fannie Braxton Young, West Brook, to Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are mostly unidentified, including Henrietta to Fannie Bland Coalter (c/o Rev. 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Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.","Also includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.","Box: 1-2. Letters are arranged alphabetically by author.","Box-folder 1:1-18","Letters from Margaret W. Barnes, Ellwood, to Fanny Bland Coalter Brown, one dated May 30, 1861 and another dated January 13, 1880, and nineteen letters with no date. Also, one, undated to Thompson Brown.","The author may be Bunny Braxton.","The letter may be to Fanny.","Letter from an unknown writer \"to his mother\".","Manuscript","Twenty-one letters of which four letters have no date.","J. Thompson Brown, Charlottesville and \"Brierfield,\" Bedford County, Virginia, to his mother, 1880-1881, his wife, 1896, and a signed picture of a home [Brierfield?].","Typewritten Letter Signed.","Eight letters of which the letter of March 10, 1859 mentions fire at the College of William and Mary.","Two letters from Lucy C. Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown, 19 February [1858?]and 21 April [?].","Two letters from William Beasley, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"Mrs. Brown,\" 5 October 1878 and 29 September 1881.","Letter from Janet Begg, Bedford Springs, to Cassie Tucker Brown.","Letter from Fanny Bland, Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland, to Mrs. Brown.","Box-folder 2:1-3","Letter from F. T. Carmichael to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Susan Carrington to Fanny Coalter Brown.","Letter from Catty [?], \"Otter,\" to Cousin Fanny, completely dated as September 8.","Six letters from L. W. and Lelia B. Cocke to Fannie.","Letter from G. P. Coleman, Richmond, Virginia, to J. Thompson Brown.","The undated letter is from July 7.","Manuscript.","Judy H. Tomlin later married St. George Tucker Coalter becoming Judith Harrison Tomlin Coalter.","Letter from Betty B. Dallam, Baltimore, Maryland, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Sallie A. Donnan, Petersburg, Virginia, to \"My dear friend.\"","Box-folder 2:5-6","Letters signed from \"Aunt Lockie\".","Letter is dated as November 12.","Three letters from \"Gay\"[?], near Richmond, Kentucky, to \"Ma\" and Aunt Fannie.","Two letters from G. B. Grinnan, Brampton, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Two letters from Jenny [?], \"Stanley,\" to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Betty C. Lacy, Eliwood, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from Willie C. Lancaster to \"Cassie.\"","Letter from \"Lizzie,\" to \"Aunt Fannie.\"","Letter from Lizzie Lee, \"Bremo,\" to Fanny, dated only as June 15.","Eight letters from \"Aunt Mary,\" University of Virginia, to Thompson Brown.","Letter from Josie McIlwaine, Petersburg, Virginia, to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Letter from J. L. Morton, Farmville, to Fannie B. Coalter, August 2, 1856.","Letter from Charlie Page, Cary's Brook, to \"Cousin Fanny,\" July 27, 1876.","Typewritten letter from A.M. Randolph, Casanova P.O., Virginia, to F. Saunders.","Letter from Maria Rind to John Coalter.","Letter from Susan N. Roberts, Wady, Virginia, to J. T. Brown.","Letter from F. B. R. [Frances B. Robinson?] to Alice Browne. Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson and Alice Brown were sisters of John Thompson Brown (1802-1836).","Letter from John G. Shepperson to Fanny (Coalter) Brown.","Five letters from \"Susie,\" to \"Dear Aunt F.\", Virginia, and Uncle.","Letter from W. W. Teates, Evington, Virginia, to John Thompson Brown.","Five letters from members of the Tucker family including JR., Dallas, D. H., and Bev to cousins and Cassie.","Letter from Mattie Morton Womack, \"Buffaloe,\" to Fannie.","Letter from Fannie Braxton Young, West Brook, to Fannie.","Letters are mostly unidentified, including Henrietta to Fannie Bland Coalter (c/o Rev. Moses Hoge, Richmond).","Includes notes, bills, receipts, school reports, etc.","Box-folder: 3:1 Photographs of Jefferson Davis and Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Box-folder: 3:2-3","From the American News Co.","Physical Location: Located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: E 384.3 B87. Speech concerns the state of relations between US and South Carolina.","Broadside announces to citizens of Harrison he will not be a candidate for the legislature. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B72 RBVA","The leaflet is addressed to \"Fellow Citizens,\" signed by J. T. Brown, and includes a copy of legislative act. Four page leaflet. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F247 H3B71 RBVA","Booklet is signed by John Thompson Brown. 20 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. Call Number: F2k7 H3B74 RBVA","Booklet is signed by Jno. Tho. Brown. Includes report of committee and copy of bill. 18 pages. Photostats. Original is located in the Rare Books Department, Virginia Collection, Swem Library. 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